Re: [PATCH net] ipvlan: fix addr hash list corruption

[Mahesh Bandewar <maheshb@google.com>]

On Wed, Mar 25, 2015 at 8:46 AM, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> wrote:
> From: Jiri Benc <jbenc@redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 09:58:51 +0100
>
>> On Tue, 24 Mar 2015 16:16:38 -0700, Mahesh Bandewar wrote:
>>> Well, we already have hlist_unhashed().The following patch should fix
>>> the duplicate addition as well as deletion. Please give it a try.
>>
>> Good idea, it's surely better than adding a new boolean.
>>
>> However, I'm wondering that when there's apparently no problem with the
>> addresses being on the hash list when interface is down, what's the
>> point in clearing the hash list in the ndo_stop handler and
>> repopulating it in ndo_open?
>>
>> The following patch fixes the problem, too, and as a bonus removes code:
>
> I'll let Mahesh reply to this.

Yes functionally you will get the same result. However during the RX
processing, that code helps ipvlan-demux machine along with
packet-dispatcher to determine it early to drop the packet rather than
later. Also note that addition / deletion of address entries in
hash-table is done in control-path while the demux / dispatcher
operate in data-path. So for this reason I would prefer to leave the
hash-table entries addition / deletion as it is.

--mahesh..