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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-03-09 09:15:40 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-03-09 09:15:40 -0700
commitdf0b4a5080ca668636831b641a6356500fb5c637 (patch)
treeaaab82b392b4e1fdc672ab55efb017c91fdc6616 /include
parent39a3478c1c0122640b1a0ead0d7cccd0804b1750 (diff)
parentc0350024723b4a69e38655816484d934aca8eb30 (diff)
Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (29 commits) p54: fix race condition in memory management cfg80211: test before subtraction on unsigned iwlwifi: fix error flow in iwl*_pci_probe rt2x00 : more devices to rt73usb.c rt2x00 : more devices to rt2500usb.c bonding: Fix device passed into ->ndo_neigh_setup(). vlan: Fix vlan-in-vlan crashes. net: Fix missing dev->neigh_setup in register_netdevice(). tmspci: fix request_irq race pkt_sched: act_police: Fix a rate estimator test. tg3: Fix 5906 link problems SCTP: change sctp_ctl_sock_init() to try IPv4 if IPv6 fails IPv6: add "disable" module parameter support to ipv6.ko sungem: another error printed one too early aoe: error printed 1 too early net pcmcia: worklimit reaches -1 net: more timeouts that reach -1 net: fix tokenring license dm9601: new vendor/product IDs netlink: invert error code in netlink_set_err() ...
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/netdevice.h1
-rw-r--r--include/net/net_namespace.h27
2 files changed, 18 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/netdevice.h b/include/linux/netdevice.h
index ec54785d34f..659366734f3 100644
--- a/include/linux/netdevice.h
+++ b/include/linux/netdevice.h
@@ -1079,6 +1079,7 @@ extern void synchronize_net(void);
extern int register_netdevice_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
extern int unregister_netdevice_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb);
extern int init_dummy_netdev(struct net_device *dev);
+extern void netdev_resync_ops(struct net_device *dev);
extern int call_netdevice_notifiers(unsigned long val, struct net_device *dev);
extern struct net_device *dev_get_by_index(struct net *net, int ifindex);
diff --git a/include/net/net_namespace.h b/include/net/net_namespace.h
index 6fc13d905c5..ded434b032a 100644
--- a/include/net/net_namespace.h
+++ b/include/net/net_namespace.h
@@ -109,11 +109,6 @@ extern struct list_head net_namespace_list;
#ifdef CONFIG_NET_NS
extern void __put_net(struct net *net);
-static inline int net_alive(struct net *net)
-{
- return net && atomic_read(&net->count);
-}
-
static inline struct net *get_net(struct net *net)
{
atomic_inc(&net->count);
@@ -145,11 +140,6 @@ int net_eq(const struct net *net1, const struct net *net2)
}
#else
-static inline int net_alive(struct net *net)
-{
- return 1;
-}
-
static inline struct net *get_net(struct net *net)
{
return net;
@@ -234,6 +224,23 @@ struct pernet_operations {
void (*exit)(struct net *net);
};
+/*
+ * Use these carefully. If you implement a network device and it
+ * needs per network namespace operations use device pernet operations,
+ * otherwise use pernet subsys operations.
+ *
+ * This is critically important. Most of the network code cleanup
+ * runs with the assumption that dev_remove_pack has been called so no
+ * new packets will arrive during and after the cleanup functions have
+ * been called. dev_remove_pack is not per namespace so instead the
+ * guarantee of no more packets arriving in a network namespace is
+ * provided by ensuring that all network devices and all sockets have
+ * left the network namespace before the cleanup methods are called.
+ *
+ * For the longest time the ipv4 icmp code was registered as a pernet
+ * device which caused kernel oops, and panics during network
+ * namespace cleanup. So please don't get this wrong.
+ */
extern int register_pernet_subsys(struct pernet_operations *);
extern void unregister_pernet_subsys(struct pernet_operations *);
extern int register_pernet_gen_subsys(int *id, struct pernet_operations *);