Re: [PATCH] net: change netdev_unregister_timeout_secs min value to 1

[Eric Dumazet]

On 3/25/21 3:38 PM, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 25, 2021 at 3:34 PM Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On 3/25/21 11:31 AM, Dmitry Vyukov wrote:
>>> netdev_unregister_timeout_secs=0 can lead to printing the
>>> "waiting for dev to become free" message every jiffy.
>>> This is too frequent and unnecessary.
>>> Set the min value to 1 second.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Suggested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Fixes: 5aa3afe107d9 ("net: make unregister netdev warning timeout configurable")
>>> Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>> ---
>>
>> Please respin your patch, and fix the merge issue [1]
> 
> Is net-next rebuilt and rebased? Do I send v4 of the whole change?
> I cannot base it on net-next now, because net-next already includes
> most of it... so what should I use as base then?
> 
>> For networking patches it is customary to tell if its for net or net-next tree.
>>
>> [1]
>> diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c
>> index 4bb6dcdbed8b856c03dc4af8b7fafe08984e803f..7bb00b8b86c6494c033cf57460f96ff3adebe081 100644
>> --- a/net/core/dev.c
>> +++ b/net/core/dev.c
>> @@ -10431,7 +10431,7 @@ static void netdev_wait_allrefs(struct net_device *dev)
>>
>>                 refcnt = netdev_refcnt_read(dev);
>>
>> -               if (refcnt &&
>> +               if (refcnt != 1 &&
>>                     time_after(jiffies, warning_time +
>>                                netdev_unregister_timeout_secs * HZ)) {
>>                         pr_emerg("unregister_netdevice: waiting for %s to become free. Usage count = %d\n",

Please include my fix into your patch.

Send a V2, based on current net-next.

net-next is never rebased, we have to fix the bug by adding a fix on top of it.