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Commit 8eb79863 authored by Eric W. Biederman's avatar Eric W. Biederman Committed by David S. Miller
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netns: foreach_netdev_safe is insufficient in default_device_exit



During network namespace teardown we either move or delete
all of the network devices associated with a network namespace.
In the case of veth devices deleting one will also delete it's
pair device.  If both devices are in the same network namespace
then for_each_netdev_safe is insufficient as next may point
to the second veth device we have deleted.

To avoid problems I do what we do in __rtnl_kill_links and
restart the scan of the device list, after we have deleted
a device.

Currently dev_change_netnamespace does not appear to suffer from
this problem, but wireless devices are also paired and likely
should be moved between network namespaces together.  So I have
errored on the side of caution and restart the scan of the network
devices in that case as well.

Signed-off-by: default avatarEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 91b208c7
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