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authorGravatar Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> 2022-02-15 14:53:10 -0800
committerGravatar Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> 2022-02-17 08:22:21 -0800
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parentnet: transition netdev reg state earlier in run_todo (diff)
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net: allow out-of-order netdev unregistration
Sprinkle for each loops to allow netdevices to be unregistered out of order, as their refs are released. This prevents problems caused by dependencies between netdevs which want to release references in their ->priv_destructor. See commit d6ff94afd90b ("vlan: move dev_put into vlan_dev_uninit") for example. Eric has removed the only known ordering requirement in commit c002496babfd ("Merge branch 'ipv6-loopback'") so let's try this and see if anything explodes... Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com> Reviewed-by: Xin Long <lucien.xin@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220215225310.3679266-2-kuba@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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