net: Handle NETREG_UNINITIALIZED devices correctly
Fix two problems:
1. If unregister_netdevice_many() is called with both registered
and unregistered devices, rollback_registered_many() bails out
when it reaches the first unregistered device. The processing
of the prior registered devices is unfinished, and the
remaining devices are skipped, and possible registered netdev's
are leaked/unregistered.
2. System hangs or panics depending on how the devices are passed,
since when netdev_run_todo() runs, some devices were not fully
processed.
Tested by passing intermingled unregistered and registered vlan
devices to unregister_netdevice_many() as follows:
1. dev, fake_dev1, fake_dev2: hangs in run_todo
("unregister_netdevice: waiting for eth1.100 to become
free. Usage count = 1")
2. fake_dev1, dev, fake_dev2: failure during de-registration
and next registration, followed by a vlan driver Oops
during subsequent registration.
Confirmed that the patch fixes both cases.
Signed-off-by: Krishna Kumar <krkumar2@in.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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