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In the past we had multiple instances where RIFs were not properly
deleted.
One of the reasons for leaking a RIF was that at the time when IP
addresses were flushed from the respective netdev (prompting the
destruction of the RIF), the netdev was no longer a mlxsw upper. This
caused the inet{,6}addr notification blocks to ignore the NETDEV_DOWN
event and leak the RIF.
Instead of checking whether the netdev is our upper when an IP address
is removed, we can instead check if the netdev has a RIF configured.
To look up a RIF we need to access mlxsw private data, so the patch
stores the notification blocks inside a mlxsw struct. This then allows
us to use container_of() and extract the required private data.
Signed-off-by: Ido Schimmel <idosch@mellanox.com>
Reviewed-by: Petr Machata <petrm@mellanox.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.