linux/net
Herbert Xu d4828d85d1 [NET]: Prevent transmission after dev_deactivate
The dev_deactivate function has bit-rotted since the introduction of
lockless drivers.  In particular, the spin_unlock_wait call at the end
has no effect on the xmit routine of lockless drivers.

With a little bit of work, we can make it much more useful by providing
the guarantee that when it returns, no more calls to the xmit routine
of the underlying driver will be made.

The idea is simple.  There are two entry points in to the xmit routine.
The first comes from dev_queue_xmit.  That one is easily stopped by
using synchronize_rcu.  This works because we set the qdisc to noop_qdisc
before the synchronize_rcu call.  That in turn causes all subsequent
packets sent to dev_queue_xmit to be dropped.  The synchronize_rcu call
also ensures all outstanding calls leave their critical section.

The other entry point is from qdisc_run.  Since we now have a bit that
indicates whether it's running, all we have to do is to wait until the
bit is off.

I've removed the loop to wait for __LINK_STATE_SCHED to clear.  This is
useless because netif_wake_queue can cause it to be set again.  It is
also harmless because we've disarmed qdisc_run.

I've also removed the spin_unlock_wait on xmit_lock because its only
purpose of making sure that all outstanding xmit_lock holders have
exited is also given by dev_watchdog_down.

Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-06-23 02:07:26 -07:00
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802 [TR]: Remove an unused export. 2006-05-16 15:23:40 -07:00
8021q [NET]: Replace skb_pull/skb_postpull_rcsum with skb_pull_rcsum 2006-03-20 22:43:56 -08:00
appletalk [NET]: Fix ipx/econet/appletalk/irda ioctl crashes 2006-03-28 17:02:43 -08:00
atm [ATM]: fix broken uses of NIPQUAD in net/atm 2006-06-20 03:27:27 -07:00
ax25 [AX.25]: Eleminate HZ from AX.25 kernel interfaces 2006-05-03 23:27:16 -07:00
bluetooth [BLUETOOTH] sco: Possible double free. 2006-04-09 22:25:29 -07:00
bridge [BRIDGE]: Add support for NETIF_F_HW_CSUM devices 2006-06-17 22:06:45 -07:00
core [NET]: Prevent transmission after dev_deactivate 2006-06-23 02:07:26 -07:00
dccp [I/OAT]: Make sk_eat_skb I/OAT aware. 2006-06-17 21:25:52 -07:00
decnet [NET]: Clean up skb_linearize 2006-06-17 21:30:16 -07:00
econet [ECONET]: Convert away from SOCKOPS_WRAPPED 2006-03-28 17:02:43 -08:00
ethernet [NET]: Eliminate unused /proc/sys/net/ethernet 2006-06-05 15:34:11 -07:00
ieee80211 [PATCH] wireless: correct dump of WPA IE 2006-06-15 15:48:14 -04:00
ipv4 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband 2006-06-19 19:01:59 -07:00
ipv6 [IPV6] ADDRCONF: Fix default source address selection without CONFIG_IPV6_PRIVACY 2006-06-23 02:07:24 -07:00
ipx [IPX]: Endian bug in ipxrtr_route_packet() 2006-06-17 21:30:24 -07:00
irda [IRDA]: Use put_unaligned() in irlmp_do_discovery(). 2006-06-17 22:16:13 -07:00
key [LSM-IPsec]: SELinux Authorize 2006-06-17 21:29:45 -07:00
lapb
llc [LLC]: Fix double receive of SKB. 2006-06-17 21:29:19 -07:00
netfilter [NETFILTER]: xt_sctp: fix endless loop caused by 0 chunk length 2006-06-19 23:39:45 -07:00
netlink Merge branch 'audit.b10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/audit-current 2006-05-01 21:43:05 -07:00
netrom [NETROM/ROSE]: Kill module init version kernel log messages. 2006-05-05 17:19:26 -07:00
packet [NET]: Fix some whitespace issues in af_packet.c 2006-01-23 16:28:02 -08:00
rose [NETROM/ROSE]: Kill module init version kernel log messages. 2006-05-05 17:19:26 -07:00
rxrpc [PATCH] fix 'defined but not used' warning in net/rxrpc/main.c::rxrpc_initialise 2006-03-25 08:22:52 -08:00
sched [NET]: Prevent transmission after dev_deactivate 2006-06-23 02:07:26 -07:00
sctp [SCTP]: sctp_unpack_cookie() fix 2006-06-20 03:26:14 -07:00
sunrpc [PATCH] knfsd: Fix two problems that can cause rmmod nfsd to die 2006-05-23 10:35:31 -07:00
tipc [NET]: Remove redundant NULL checks before [kv]free 2006-04-18 15:57:55 -07:00
unix [PATCH] POLLRDHUP/EPOLLRDHUP handling for half-closed devices notifications 2006-03-25 08:22:56 -08:00
wanrouter [WAN]: Remove broken and unmaintained Sangoma drivers. 2006-04-11 17:28:33 -07:00
x25 [X25]: fix for spinlock recurse and spinlock lockup with timer handler 2006-04-29 18:33:11 -07:00
xfrm [NET]: Fix warnings after LSM-IPSEC changes. 2006-06-17 21:29:49 -07:00
compat.c [NETFILTER]: iptables 32bit compat layer 2006-04-01 02:25:19 -08:00
Kconfig [SECMARK]: Add secmark support to core networking. 2006-06-17 21:29:57 -07:00
Makefile [TIPC] Initial merge 2006-01-12 14:06:31 -08:00
nonet.c [PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ const 2006-03-28 09:16:06 -08:00
socket.c [PATCH] sockaddr patch 2006-05-01 06:06:10 -04:00
sysctl_net.c [NET]: Eliminate unused /proc/sys/net/ethernet 2006-06-05 15:34:11 -07:00
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