From: Cong Wang <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2017 15:01:57 -0700
> As Hongjun/Nicolas summarized in their original patch: > > " > When a device changes from one netns to another, it's first unregistered, > then the netns reference is updated and the dev is registered in the new > netns. Thus, when a slave moves to another netns, it is first > unregistered. This triggers a NETDEV_UNREGISTER event which is caught by > the bonding driver. The driver calls bond_release(), which calls > dev_set_mtu() and thus triggers NETDEV_CHANGEMTU (the device is still in > the old netns). > " > > This is a very special case, because the device is being unregistered > no one should still care about the NETDEV_CHANGEMTU event triggered > at this point, we can avoid broadcasting this event on this path, > and avoid touching inetdev_event()/addrconf_notify() path. > > It requires to export __dev_set_mtu() to bonding driver. > > Reported-by: Hongjun Li <[email protected]> > Reported-by: Nicolas Dichtel <[email protected]> > Cc: Jay Vosburgh <[email protected]> > Cc: Veaceslav Falico <[email protected]> > Cc: Andy Gospodarek <[email protected]> > Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <[email protected]> Applied, thanks.
