1. 05 May, 2014 1 commit
    • Roopa Prabhu's avatar
      unregister_netdevice : move RTM_DELLINK to until after ndo_uninit · 56bfa7ee
      Roopa Prabhu authored
      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: default avatarRoopa Prabhu <roopa@cumulusnetworks.com>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
      56bfa7ee
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