On 10/22/15 at 07:21pm, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: > Hi Thomas, > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015, at 18:45, Thomas Graf wrote: > > I understand the race but when does it occur? Whoever creates > > the original interface owns it and is responsible for its > > lifecycle. *Iff* for some reason multiple entities manipulate > > the interface, then it's probably a lot safer to just use flock > > or something similar to serialize access entirely in user space. > > This only works if all networking configuration programs would > standardize on the same flock. Also, under memory pressure we lose > netlink monitor messages, so we need to deal with timeouts and retries > and manual sync up on the networking configuration, which makes this > scheme a lot harder. For normal socket io, where we specify e.g. ifindex > in sin6_addr, this is not really usable at all.
Again, what is the scenario where this happens? Is this being hit or are we talking theoretical races? I'd like to understand the background of this. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
