[ovs-dev] [PATCH net] openvswitch: Fix net exit.

Thomas Graf tgraf at noironetworks.com
Thu Feb 19 23:24:46 UTC 2015


On 02/17/15 at 11:23am, Pravin B Shelar wrote:
> Open vSwitch allows moving internal vport to different namespace
> while still connected to the bridge. But when namespace deleted
> OVS does not detach these vports, that results in dangling
> pointer to netdevice which causes kernel panic as follows.
> This issue is fixed by detaching all ovs ports from the deleted
> namespace at net-exit.

[...]

> Reported-by: Assaf Muller <amuller at redhat.com>
> Fixes: 46df7b81454("openvswitch: Add support for network namespaces.")
> Signed-off-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar at nicira.com>

Reviewed-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf at noironetworks.com>



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