This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
net: use net->count to check whether a netns is alive or not
to the 4.10-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
net-use-net-count-to-check-whether-a-netns-is-alive-or-not.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.10 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From foo@baz Sat Mar 18 22:03:53 CST 2017
From: Andrey Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 12 Mar 2017 21:36:18 -0700
Subject: net: use net->count to check whether a netns is alive or not
From: Andrey Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ Upstream commit 91864f5852f9996210fad400cf70fb85af091243 ]
The previous idea was to check whether a net namespace is in
net_exit_list or not. It doesn't work, because net->exit_list is used in
__register_pernet_operations and __unregister_pernet_operations where
all namespaces are added to a temporary list to make cleanup in a error
case, so list_empty(&net->exit_list) always returns false.
Reported-by: Mantas Mikulėnas <grawity@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 002d8a1a6c11 ("net: skip genenerating uevents for network namespaces that are exiting")
Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/core/net-sysfs.c | 6 +++---
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -952,7 +952,7 @@ net_rx_queue_update_kobjects(struct net_
while (--i >= new_num) {
struct kobject *kobj = &dev->_rx[i].kobj;
- if (!list_empty(&dev_net(dev)->exit_list))
+ if (!atomic_read(&dev_net(dev)->count))
kobj->uevent_suppress = 1;
if (dev->sysfs_rx_queue_group)
sysfs_remove_group(kobj, dev->sysfs_rx_queue_group);
@@ -1370,7 +1370,7 @@ netdev_queue_update_kobjects(struct net_
while (--i >= new_num) {
struct netdev_queue *queue = dev->_tx + i;
- if (!list_empty(&dev_net(dev)->exit_list))
+ if (!atomic_read(&dev_net(dev)->count))
queue->kobj.uevent_suppress = 1;
#ifdef CONFIG_BQL
sysfs_remove_group(&queue->kobj, &dql_group);
@@ -1557,7 +1557,7 @@ void netdev_unregister_kobject(struct ne
{
struct device *dev = &(ndev->dev);
- if (!list_empty(&dev_net(ndev)->exit_list))
+ if (!atomic_read(&dev_net(ndev)->count))
dev_set_uevent_suppress(dev, 1);
kobject_get(&dev->kobj);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from avagin@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.10/net-use-net-count-to-check-whether-a-netns-is-alive-or-not.patch