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From: Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com>
To: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@stressinduktion.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ipmr_free_table() should be called under taken rtnl_lock
Date: Wed, 08 Jul 2015 14:46:34 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <559D0D9A.6050401@virtuozzo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <559CFB97.4020701@virtuozzo.com>



On 08.07.2015 13:29, Vasily Averin wrote:
> On 07.07.2015 20:53, Vasily Averin wrote:
>> On 07.07.2015 20:30, Cong Wang wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 10:25 AM, Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com> wrote:
>>>> On 07.07.2015 20:13, Cong Wang wrote:
>>>>> On Tue, Jul 7, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Vasily Averin <vvs@virtuozzo.com> wrote:
>>>>>> ipmr_free_table() calls unregister_netdevice_many() inside
>>>>>> and changes net_todo_list protected by rtnl_lock
>>>>>
>>>>> Did you see any real bug?
>>>>
>>>> No, it was result of manual code review.
>>>>
>>>>> ipmr_free_table() is called in failure path, in this case there is no
>>>>> device registered yet, so unregister should be just a nop?
>>>>
>>>> However may be it's better to mark this place for future anyway?
>>>
>>> Then add a comment there. ;)
>>
>> As you can see I'm not familiar with this code,
>> so I would like to ask you to do it. :)
> 
> Seems I've found a better idea:
> to add ASSERT_RTNL() into unregister_netdevice_many()

It was done already,
there is ASSERT_RTNL() in rollback_registered_many() called from unregister_netdevice_many().

Please drop this patch, seems it isn't required. 

      reply	other threads:[~2015-07-08 11:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-07 15:53 [PATCH 3/3] ipmr_free_table() should be called under taken rtnl_lock Vasily Averin
2015-07-07 17:13 ` Cong Wang
2015-07-07 17:25   ` Vasily Averin
2015-07-07 17:30     ` Cong Wang
2015-07-07 17:53       ` Vasily Averin
2015-07-08 10:29         ` Vasily Averin
2015-07-08 11:46           ` Vasily Averin [this message]

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