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    net: Delay default_device_exit_batch until no devices are unregistering v2 · 50624c93
    Eric W. Biederman authored
    
    
    There is currently serialization network namespaces exiting and
    network devices exiting as the final part of netdev_run_todo does not
    happen under the rtnl_lock.  This is compounded by the fact that the
    only list of devices unregistering in netdev_run_todo is local to the
    netdev_run_todo.
    
    This lack of serialization in extreme cases results in network devices
    unregistering in netdev_run_todo after the loopback device of their
    network namespace has been freed (making dst_ifdown unsafe), and after
    the their network namespace has exited (making the NETDEV_UNREGISTER,
    and NETDEV_UNREGISTER_FINAL callbacks unsafe).
    
    Add the missing serialization by a per network namespace count of how
    many network devices are unregistering and having a wait queue that is
    woken up whenever the count is decreased.  The count and wait queue
    allow default_device_exit_batch to wait until all of the unregistration
    activity for a network namespace has finished before proceeding to
    unregister the loopback device and then allowing the network namespace
    to exit.
    
    Only a single global wait queue is used because there is a single global
    lock, and there is a single waiter, per network namespace wait queues
    would be a waste of resources.
    
    The per network namespace count of unregistering devices gives a
    progress guarantee because the number of network devices unregistering
    in an exiting network namespace must ultimately drop to zero (assuming
    network device unregistration completes).
    
    The basic logic remains the same as in v1.  This patch is now half
    comment and half rtnl_lock_unregistering an expanded version of
    wait_event performs no extra work in the common case where no network
    devices are unregistering when we get to default_device_exit_batch.
    
    Reported-by: default avatarFrancesco Ruggeri <fruggeri@aristanetworks.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatar"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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