From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Graf Subject: Re: [ovs-dev] [PATCH net] openvswitch: Fix net exit. Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 00:24:46 +0100 Message-ID: <20150219232446.GD29571@pox.localdomain> References: <1424200990-1558-1-git-send-email-pshelar@nicira.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: davem@davemloft.net, dev@openvswitch.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, amuller@redhat.com To: Pravin B Shelar Return-path: Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com ([209.85.212.181]:35133 "EHLO mail-wi0-f181.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751681AbbBSXYu (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Feb 2015 18:24:50 -0500 Received: by mail-wi0-f181.google.com with SMTP id r20so12670415wiv.2 for ; Thu, 19 Feb 2015 15:24:49 -0800 (PST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1424200990-1558-1-git-send-email-pshelar@nicira.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 02/17/15 at 11:23am, Pravin B Shelar wrote: > Open vSwitch allows moving internal vport to different namespace > while still connected to the bridge. But when namespace deleted > OVS does not detach these vports, that results in dangling > pointer to netdevice which causes kernel panic as follows. > This issue is fixed by detaching all ovs ports from the deleted > namespace at net-exit. [...] > Reported-by: Assaf Muller > Fixes: 46df7b81454("openvswitch: Add support for network namespaces.") > Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar Reviewed-by: Thomas Graf