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    net: make sure devices go through netdev_wait_all_refs · 766b0515
    Jakub Kicinski authored
    If register_netdevice() fails at the very last stage - the
    notifier call - some subsystems may have already seen it and
    grabbed a reference. struct net_device can't be freed right
    away without calling netdev_wait_all_refs().
    
    Now that we have a clean interface in form of dev->needs_free_netdev
    and lenient free_netdev() we can undo what commit 93ee31f1 ("[NET]:
    Fix free_netdev on register_netdev failure.") has done and complete
    the unregistration path by bringing the net_set_todo() call back.
    
    After registration fails user is still expected to explicitly
    free the net_device, so make sure ->needs_free_netdev is cleared,
    otherwise rolling back the registration will cause the old double
    free for callers who release rtnl_lock before the free.
    
    This also solves the problem of priv_destructor not being called
    on notifier error.
    
    net_set_todo() will be moved back into unregister_netdevice_queue()
    in a follow up.
    Reported-by: default avatarHulk Robot <hulkci@huawei.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarYang Yingliang <yangyingliang@huawei.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
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