linux-stable/net/core
Eric W. Biederman ce16c5337a netns: Remove net_alive
It turns out that net_alive is unnecessary, and the original problem
that led to it being added was simply that the icmp code thought
it was a network device and wound up being unable to handle packets
while there were still packets in the network namespace.

Now that icmp and tcp have been fixed to properly register themselves
this problem is no longer present and we have a stronger guarantee
that packets will not arrive in a network namespace then that provided
by net_alive in netif_receive_skb.  So remove net_alive allowing
packet reception run a little faster.

Additionally document the strong reason why network namespace cleanup
is safe so that if something happens again someone else will have
a chance of figuring it out.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@aristanetworks.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-22 19:54:50 -08:00
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datagram.c net: sk_free_datagram() should use sk_mem_reclaim_partial() 2008-11-05 01:38:06 -08:00
dev.c netns: Remove net_alive 2009-02-22 19:54:50 -08:00
dev_mcast.c net: Rationalise email address: Network Specific Parts 2008-10-13 19:01:08 -07:00
dst.c net: speedup dst_release() 2008-11-14 00:53:54 -08:00
ethtool.c ethtool: Add RX pkt classification interface 2009-02-20 00:58:13 -08:00
fib_rules.c net: fib_rules ordering fixes. 2008-11-07 22:52:34 -08:00
filter.c filter: add SKF_AD_NLATTR_NEST to look for nested attributes 2008-11-20 00:49:27 -08:00
flow.c netns xfrm: lookup in netns 2008-11-25 17:35:18 -08:00
gen_estimator.c pkt_sched: gen_estimator: Optimize gen_estimator_active() 2008-11-26 15:24:32 -08:00
gen_stats.c [NET_SCHED]: Convert packet schedulers from rtnetlink to new netlink API 2008-01-28 15:11:10 -08:00
iovec.c net: Use standard structures for generic socket address structures. 2008-07-19 22:35:47 -07:00
kmap_skb.h [PATCH] severing skbuff.h -> highmem.h 2006-12-04 02:00:29 -05:00
link_watch.c Revert "net: Fix for initial link state in 2.6.28" 2009-01-05 16:01:51 -08:00
Makefile net: Add SKB DMA mapping helper functions. 2008-09-11 04:51:14 -07:00
neighbour.c neigh: some entries can be skipped during dumping 2009-02-06 00:52:04 -08:00
net-sysfs.c netns: filter out uevent not belonging to init_net 2008-11-25 16:46:37 -08:00
net-sysfs.h netns: Fix device renaming for sysfs 2008-05-02 17:00:58 -07:00
net_namespace.c netns: Remove net_alive 2009-02-22 19:54:50 -08:00
netevent.c [NET]: net/core/netevent.c should #include <net/netevent.h> 2007-07-05 17:40:27 -07:00
netpoll.c Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-12-15 20:03:50 -08:00
pktgen.c netns xfrm: finding states in netns 2008-11-25 17:31:51 -08:00
request_sock.c net: convert BUG_TRAP to generic WARN_ON 2008-07-25 21:43:18 -07:00
rtnetlink.c netdev: introduce dev_get_stats() 2008-11-19 21:40:23 -08:00
scm.c Merge branch 'master' into next 2008-11-18 18:52:37 +11:00
skb_dma_map.c net: Fix off-by-one in skb_dma_map 2008-10-12 21:07:34 -07:00
skbuff.c net: infrastructure for hardware time stamping 2009-02-15 22:43:34 -08:00
sock.c net: socket infrastructure for SO_TIMESTAMPING 2009-02-15 22:43:35 -08:00
stream.c net: Rationalise email address: Network Specific Parts 2008-10-13 19:01:08 -07:00
sysctl_net_core.c netns xfrm: per-netns sysctls 2008-11-25 18:00:48 -08:00
user_dma.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2008-07-26 20:17:56 -07:00
utils.c printk ratelimiting rewrite 2008-07-25 10:53:29 -07:00