Re: [RFC] about net: Fix inconsistent teardown and release of private netdev state.

From: Eric Dumazet <redacted>
Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2017 20:40:01 -0700

Let look at tun->pcpu_stats, for example.

It is allocated at line 1831, before the register_netdevice()

drivers/net/tun.c does not provide ndo_init()

I see the problem now.

And it's done this way because several steps need to occur, with
various kinds of dependencies, before the register_netdevice() call is
made.

I'll see if I can untangle this somehow.