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From: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
To: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
Subject: Re: [Patch net-next 4/5] net_sched: forbid setting default qdisc to inappropriate ones
Date: Wed, 26 Aug 2015 17:08:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150826170802.27eff88c@urahara> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1440628887-3504-5-git-send-email-xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

On Wed, 26 Aug 2015 15:41:26 -0700
Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> wrote:

> Currently there is no check for if a qdisc is appropriate
> to be used as the default qdisc. This causes we get no
> error even we set the default qdisc to an inappropriate one
> but an error will be shown up later. This is not good.
> 
> Also, for qdisc's like HTB, kernel will just crash when
> we use it as default qdisc, because some data structures are
> not even initialized yet before checking opt == NULL, the cleanup
> doing ->reset() or ->destroy() on them will just crash.

Why not fix the buggy one's instead?

  reply	other threads:[~2015-08-27  0:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-08-26 22:41 [Patch net-next 0/5] net_sched: introduce static flags for qdisc's Cong Wang
2015-08-26 22:41 ` [Patch net-next 1/5] net_sched: move some qdisc flag into qdisc ops Cong Wang
2015-08-26 22:41 ` [Patch net-next 2/5] net_sched: move TCQ_F_MQROOT " Cong Wang
2015-08-26 22:41 ` [Patch net-next 3/5] net_sched: use a flag to indicate fifo qdiscs instead of the name Cong Wang
2015-08-26 22:41 ` [Patch net-next 4/5] net_sched: forbid setting default qdisc to inappropriate ones Cong Wang
2015-08-27  0:08   ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2015-08-27  0:14     ` Cong Wang
2015-08-27 22:30   ` David Miller
2015-08-27 22:39     ` Cong Wang
2015-08-27 22:42       ` David Miller
2015-08-27 22:47         ` Cong Wang
2015-08-27 23:18           ` David Miller
2015-08-28  1:49             ` Cong Wang
2015-08-28  4:23               ` David Miller
2015-08-28 12:26                 ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-08-28 21:39                 ` Cong Wang
2015-08-28 23:20                   ` David Miller
2015-08-30 19:07                     ` Jamal Hadi Salim
2015-09-02  6:05                       ` Cong Wang
2015-09-02  6:19                         ` David Miller
2015-09-02  6:26                           ` Cong Wang
2015-08-26 22:41 ` [Patch net-next 5/5] net_sched: move ingress flag into qdisc ops Cong Wang

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