From: ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:36:00 -0800 > I was recently hunting a bug that occurred in network namespace > cleanup. In looking at the code it became apparrent that we have > and will continue to have cases where if we have anything going > on in a network namespace there will be assumptions that the > loopback device is present. Things like sending igmp unsubscribe > messages when we bring down network devices invokes the routing > code which assumes that at least the loopback driver is present. > > Therefore to avoid magic initcall ordering hackery that is hard > to follow and hard to get right insert a call to register the > loopback device directly from net_dev_init(). This guarantes > that the loopback device is the first device registered and > the last network device to go away. > > But do it carefully so we register the loopback device after > we clear dev_boot_phase. > > Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Applied. _______________________________________________ Containers mailing list Containers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/containers
