[ 13/54] net: In unregister_netdevice_notifier unregister the netdevices.

[Greg KH]

3.0-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 7d3d43dab4e978d8d9ad1acf8af15c9b1c4b0f0f ]

We already synthesize events in register_netdevice_notifier and synthesizing
events in unregister_netdevice_notifier allows to us remove the need for
special case cleanup code.

This change should be safe as it adds no new cases for existing callers
of unregiser_netdevice_notifier to handle.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 net/core/dev.c |   20 ++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+)

--- a/net/core/dev.c
+++ b/net/core/dev.c
@@ -1406,14 +1406,34 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_netdevice_notifie
  *	register_netdevice_notifier(). The notifier is unlinked into the
  *	kernel structures and may then be reused. A negative errno code
  *	is returned on a failure.
+ *
+ * 	After unregistering unregister and down device events are synthesized
+ *	for all devices on the device list to the removed notifier to remove
+ *	the need for special case cleanup code.
  */
 
 int unregister_netdevice_notifier(struct notifier_block *nb)
 {
+	struct net_device *dev;
+	struct net *net;
 	int err;
 
 	rtnl_lock();
 	err = raw_notifier_chain_unregister(&netdev_chain, nb);
+	if (err)
+		goto unlock;
+
+	for_each_net(net) {
+		for_each_netdev(net, dev) {
+			if (dev->flags & IFF_UP) {
+				nb->notifier_call(nb, NETDEV_GOING_DOWN, dev);
+				nb->notifier_call(nb, NETDEV_DOWN, dev);
+			}
+			nb->notifier_call(nb, NETDEV_UNREGISTER, dev);
+			nb->notifier_call(nb, NETDEV_UNREGISTER_BATCH, dev);
+		}
+	}
+unlock:
 	rtnl_unlock();
 	return err;
 }


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