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| -rw-r--r-- | net/core/dev.c | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/net/core/dev.c b/net/core/dev.c index c25d453b280..9bb8f87c4cd 100644 --- a/net/core/dev.c +++ b/net/core/dev.c @@ -1409,14 +1409,34 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(register_netdevice_notifier); * 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; } |