On 11/1/20 4:39 AM, Ido Schimmel wrote:
> From: Ido Schimmel <ido...@nvidia.com>
> 
> The nexthop notification chain is a per-namespace chain and not a global
> one like the netdev notification chain.
> 
> Therefore, a single (global) listener cannot be registered to all these
> chains simultaneously as it will result in list corruptions whenever
> listeners are registered / unregistered.
> 
> Instead, register a different listener in each namespace.
> 
> Currently this is not an issue because only the VXLAN driver registers a
> listener to this chain, but this is going to change with netdevsim and
> mlxsw also registering their own listeners.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <ido...@nvidia.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/vxlan.c | 15 ++++++++-------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 

Reviewed-by: David Ahern <dsah...@kernel.org>

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