From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: [PATCH] netns: fix net_alloc_generic() Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:57:18 -0800 Message-ID: References: <4F212E7E.2040801@parallels.com> <1327575108.2500.24.camel@edumazet-HP-Compaq-6005-Pro-SFF-PC> <20120126.180754.679593869814492219.davem@davemloft.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, xemul@parallels.com, sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com, levinsasha928@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, davej@redhat.com, sjurbren@gmail.com To: David Miller Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20120126.180754.679593869814492219.davem@davemloft.net> (David Miller's message of "Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:07:54 -0500 (EST)") Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org David Miller writes: > From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) > Date: Thu, 26 Jan 2012 14:57:02 -0800 > >> It is not a chicken and egg problem. It is a bug in caif. >> caif is claiming to be a network device when it is acting as a subsytem. >> That means it is being initialized too late. >> >> Untested but this should trivially fix the problem, and a bunch >> of others of the same ilk. >> >> It is not safe to shutdown subsystems until all of the devices >> are gone, otherwise there will be problems with packets in flight. > > If you guys can agree that this is the better fix, and we can > get testing showing that it works, I'll revert Eric D.'s patch > and apply the final version of this one. Eric D.'s change is correct, but it is just an optimization of net_assign_generic. Eric D.'s change is not a bug fix. Tested fix in a moment. Eric