Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758152Ab2EURf2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2012 13:35:28 -0400 Received: from youngberry.canonical.com ([91.189.89.112]:50306 "EHLO youngberry.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754218Ab2EURfZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 May 2012 13:35:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 May 2012 14:35:12 -0300 From: Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski To: Greg KH Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, "Eric W. Biederman" , "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: [ 13/54] net: In unregister_netdevice_notifier unregister the netdevices. Message-ID: <20120521173509.GA2919@herton-Z68MA-D2H-B3> References: <20120518212656.GA4992@kroah.com> <20120518211600.656454343@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20120518211600.656454343@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2656 Lines: 83 On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 02:16:12PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: > 3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > ------------------ > > > From: "Eric W. Biederman" > > [ Upstream commit 7d3d43dab4e978d8d9ad1acf8af15c9b1c4b0f0f ] > > We already synthesize events in register_netdevice_notifier and synthesizing > events in unregister_netdevice_notifier allows to us remove the need for > special case cleanup code. > > This change should be safe as it adds no new cases for existing callers > of unregiser_netdevice_notifier to handle. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman > Signed-off-by: David S. Miller > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Please also include these two commits in addition to this change, to avoid a regression with pktgen: commit c57b54684060c8aced64a5b78ff69ff289af97b9 commit d4b1133558e0d417342d5d2c49e4c35b428ff20d > --- > net/core/dev.c | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ > 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) > > --- a/net/core/dev.c > +++ b/net/core/dev.c > @@ -1406,14 +1406,34 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_netdevice_notifie > * register_netdevice_notifier(). The notifier is unlinked into the > * kernel structures and may then be reused. A negative errno code > * is returned on a failure. > + * > + * After unregistering unregister and down device events are synthesized > + * for all devices on the device list to the removed notifier to remove > + * the need for special case cleanup code. > */ > > int unregister_netdevice_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb) > { > + struct net_device *dev; > + struct net *net; > int err; > > rtnl_lock(); > err = raw_notifier_chain_unregister(&netdev_chain, nb); > + if (err) > + goto unlock; > + > + for_each_net(net) { > + for_each_netdev(net, dev) { > + if (dev->flags & IFF_UP) { > + nb->notifier_call(nb, NETDEV_GOING_DOWN, dev); > + nb->notifier_call(nb, NETDEV_DOWN, dev); > + } > + nb->notifier_call(nb, NETDEV_UNREGISTER, dev); > + nb->notifier_call(nb, NETDEV_UNREGISTER_BATCH, dev); > + } > + } > +unlock: > rtnl_unlock(); > return err; > } > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > -- []'s Herton -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/