[Letux-kernel] [PATCH RFC] net: hso: register netdev later to avoid a race condition

[H. Nikolaus Schaller]

Hi,

> Am 26.04.2017 um 18:03 schrieb Andreas Kemnade <andreas at kemnade.info>:
> 
> On Wed, 26 Apr 2017 08:53:18 +0200
> "H. Nikolaus Schaller" <hns at goldelico.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>>> But nevertheless I managed to reproduce the kernel oops.
>> 
>> Ok, that is the most important thing for kernel debugging.
>> 
> Hmm, I checked again.
> - reproducible with 4.10 without your hack and without "net: hso:
> register netdev later to avoid a race condition"
> - reproducible with 4.11rc8 without you hack and without "net: hso:
> register netdev later to avoid a race condition"
> - not reproducible with 4.11rc8 without your hack but with "net: hso:
> register netdev later to avoid a race condition"

> 
> hmm, am I not patient enough to have it crash? Or have you mixed up
> this patch with my earlier patch about the rmmod problem?

Ah! You are right. Looks as if I mixed it up with the rmmod problem which
I had not seen before... I think I am getting old...

So I never tried the patch that you did include in your first mail on this
thread. Looks as if there were too many other patches queued up before I found
time to look into them and then e-mail isn't the best "todo" archive.

Maybe a better strategy would be to pile them all up in some work/kemnade/hso
feature branch. Then none gets lost. This is a little different from LKML
patches where there is patchwork.kernel.org to collect all patches and track them.

> Just asking to avoid debugging a possibly non-existent problem.

I will try it asap and report if it is equally good as my mdelay hack...

BR and sorry for this confusion,
Nikolaus

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