On 12/18/2017 04:22 PM, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> On 12/18/2017 04:24 AM, Toshiaki Makita wrote:
>> On 2017/12/16 20:31, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
> [snip]
>> ...
>>> err = br_changelink(dev, tb, data, extack);
>>> - if (err)
>>> + if (err) {
>>> + /* clean possible fdbs from br_stp_change_bridge_id above */
>>> + br_fdb_delete_by_port(br, NULL, 0, 1);
>>
>> Don't we need to call br_dev_delete (br_link_ops.dellink) after
>> successful register instead of br_fdb_delete?
>> Particularly I'm wondering if not calling br_sysfs_delbr() is ok or not.
>>
>
> Funny, that is actually the only reason we need to call it (br_sysfs_delbr). :-)
>
> Good catch, that is another leak - the bridge sysfs entries are registered when
> NETDEV_REGISTER event happens (register_netdevice) but are not properly cleaned up
> on error there. This has also been present since the introduction of changelink
> during newlink, commit:
> b6677449dff6 ("bridge: netlink: call br_changelink() during br_dev_newlink()")
err, since the changelink was fixed to be after device registration in commit:
5b8d5429daa0 ("bridge: netlink: register netdevice before executing changelink")
>
> I'll send v2 that does br_dev_delete(dev, NULL) instead of the current cleanup.
> With kobject debug enabled and that I can see "brif" and the rest of the sysfs
> files getting freed properly, while before they weren't.
>
> Thanks,
> Nik
>
