unregister_netdevice_many() now deletes the list after running, in the
earlier days mac80211 and so on, did this on their own. We extended the
old unregister_netdevice_many() function for all kernel versions that
do not have a fixed unregister_netdevice_many().
Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
backport/backport-include/linux/netdevice.h | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 23 insertions(+)
diff --git a/backport/backport-include/linux/netdevice.h b/backport/backport-include/linux/netdevice.h
index 8826771..4eec6c0 100644
--- a/backport/backport-include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/backport/backport-include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -176,4 +176,27 @@ static inline void netdev_reset_queue(struct net_device *dev_queue)
count)
#endif /* LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,17,0) */
+/*
+ * This backports this commit from upstream:
+ * commit 87757a917b0b3c0787e0563c679762152be81312
+ * net: force a list_del() in unregister_netdevice_many()
+ */
+#if (!(LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,10,45) && \
+ LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,11,0)) && \
+ !(LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,12,23) && \
+ LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,13,0)) && \
+ !(LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,14,9) && \
+ LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,15,0)) && \
+ !(LINUX_VERSION_CODE >= KERNEL_VERSION(3,15,2) && \
+ LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,16,0)) && \
+ (LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(3,16,0)))
+static inline void backport_unregister_netdevice_many(struct list_head *head)
+{
+ unregister_netdevice_many(head);
+
+ list_del(head);
+}
+#define unregister_netdevice_many LINUX_BACKPORT(unregister_netdevice_many)
+#endif
+
#endif /* __BACKPORT_NETDEVICE_H */
--
1.9.1
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