Re: [PATCH] panic during unregister_netdevice()

Actually, even the original code looks good, and if that panic'd, the
following won't change
that (verified it also).

When unregister_netdev() is called by the driver, it first calls
unregister_netdevice() which
drops it's last ref to the dev, making it zero. unregister_netdev() then
calls rtnl_unlock() which
calls netdev_run_todo(), which calls netdev_wait_allrefs() and only after
that succeeds,
does the driver do a free_netdev(). So the dev should not be freed while
the wait_ref() is
executing, and the original code looks correct.

I don't know if it is some corruption on my system, some hardware problem ?
I will look
some more, also try to get a different machine.

- KK




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  |       To:       Krishna Kumar/Beaverton/IBM@IBMUS                                                               |
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Try this. Instead of dropping the last reference in unregister, it does it
after all other references are gone (sort of like the old 2.4 code).

diff -Nru a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c

--- a/net/core/dev.c           Wed Nov  5 17:04:57 2003
+++ b/net/core/dev.c           Wed Nov  5 17:04:57 2003

@@ -2743,7 +2743,7 @@
             unsigned long rebroadcast_time, warning_time;

             rebroadcast_time = warning_time = jiffies;
-            while (atomic_read(&dev->refcnt) != 0) {
+            while (atomic_read(&dev->refcnt) > 1) {
                         if (time_after(jiffies, rebroadcast_time + 1 *

HZ)) {
                                     rtnl_shlock();
                                     rtnl_exlock();

@@ -2838,6 +2838,7 @@
                                     dev->reg_state = NETREG_UNREGISTERED;

                                     netdev_wait_allrefs(dev);
+                                    dev_put(dev);

                                     /* paranoia */
                                     BUG_ON(atomic_read(&dev->refcnt));

@@ -2974,7 +2975,6 @@
             /* Finish processing unregister after unlock */
             net_set_todo(dev);

-            dev_put(dev);
             return 0;
 }