From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: amwang@redhat.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org,
stephen@networkplumber.org
Subject: Re: [RFC Patch net-next] ipv6: do not allow ipv6 module to be removed
Date: Thu, 05 Sep 2013 14:06:04 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130905.140604.2263717213507575570.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1378285970-21404-1-git-send-email-amwang@redhat.com>
From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Date: Wed, 4 Sep 2013 17:12:50 +0800
> There was some bug report on ipv6 module removal path before.
> Also, as Stephen pointed out, after vxlan module gets ipv6 support,
> the ipv6 stub it used is not safe against this module removal either.
> So, let's just remove inet6_exit() so that ipv6 module will not be
> able to be unloaded.
>
> Cc: Hideaki YOSHIFUJI <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
I think we should make an effort to make ipv6 unloadable. If you
believe little effort is being put into this now, even less will
be expended if I apply a patch like this one.
And this patch has a lot of problems, you aren't removing all of
the functions which will be completely unused.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-09-05 18:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-04 9:12 [RFC Patch net-next] ipv6: do not allow ipv6 module to be removed Cong Wang
2013-09-05 18:06 ` David Miller [this message]
2013-09-06 2:52 ` Cong Wang
2013-09-06 2:58 ` David Miller
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