net: force a list_del() in unregister_netdevice_many()
authorEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Fri, 6 Jun 2014 13:44:03 +0000 (06:44 -0700)
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Mon, 23 Jun 2014 08:28:03 +0000 (10:28 +0200)
commitcbaf35e5ba05b9ff2f43d798fe4082cca8151861
tree9cbbad5e396dbfd61fa683464aa200c40f0983e6
parentab7dcb1f7b2cb6d4b24c052d76df71e27dc083d6
net: force a list_del() in unregister_netdevice_many()

[ Upstream commit 87757a917b0b3c0787e0563c679762152be81312 ]

unregister_netdevice_many() API is error prone and we had too
many bugs because of dangling LIST_HEAD on stacks.

See commit f87e6f47933e3e ("net: dont leave active on stack LIST_HEAD")

In fact, instead of making sure no caller leaves an active list_head,
just force a list_del() in the callee. No one seems to need to access
the list after unregister_netdevice_many()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
drivers/net/macvlan.c
net/core/dev.c
net/core/rtnetlink.c
net/mac80211/iface.c