Commit 56bfa7ee authored May 01, 2014 by Roopa Prabhu Committed by David S. Miller May 05, 2014

unregister_netdevice : move RTM_DELLINK to until after ndo_uninit



This patch fixes ordering of rtnl notifications during unregister_netdevice
by moving RTM_DELLINK notification to until after ndo_uninit.

The problem was seen with unregistering bond netdevices.

bond ndo_uninit callback generates a few RTM_NEWLINK notifications for
NETDEV_CHANGEADDR and NETDEV_FEAT_CHANGE. This is seen mostly when the
bond is deleted with slaves still enslaved to the bond.

During unregister netdevice (rollback_registered_many to be specific)
bond ndo_uninit is called after RTM_DELLINK notification goes out.
This results in userspace seeing RTM_DELLINK followed by a couple of
RTM_NEWLINK's.

In userspace problem was seen with libnl. libnl cache deletes the bond
when it sees RTM_DELLINK and re-adds the bond with the following
RTM_NEWLINK. Resulting in a stale bond entry in libnl cache when the kernel
has already deleted the bond.

This patch has been tested for bond, bridges and vlan devices.

Signed-off-by: Roopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

parent f4a7b5ee

net/core/dev.c

+4 −4

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -5606,10 +5606,6 @@ static void rollback_registered_many(struct list_head *head)
		*/
		call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_UNREGISTER, dev);

		if (!dev->rtnl_link_ops \|\|
		dev->rtnl_link_state == RTNL_LINK_INITIALIZED)
		rtmsg_ifinfo(RTM_DELLINK, dev, ~0U, GFP_KERNEL);

		/*
		* Flush the unicast and multicast chains
		*/
		@@ -5619,6 +5615,10 @@ static void rollback_registered_many(struct list_head *head)
		if (dev->netdev_ops->ndo_uninit)
		dev->netdev_ops->ndo_uninit(dev);

		if (!dev->rtnl_link_ops \|\|
		dev->rtnl_link_state == RTNL_LINK_INITIALIZED)
		rtmsg_ifinfo(RTM_DELLINK, dev, ~0U, GFP_KERNEL);

		/* Notifier chain MUST detach us all upper devices. */
		WARN_ON(netdev_has_any_upper_dev(dev));

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