On 11/13/24 18:50, Stanislav Fomichev wrote:
> On 11/13, Alexis Lothoré wrote:
>> On 11/13/24 14:53, Alexis Lothoré (eBPF Foundation) wrote:
>>
>> [...]
>>
>>> +   ns = open_netns(TEST_NS);
>>> +   bpf_prog_detach2(prog_fd, 0, BPF_FLOW_DISSECTOR);
>>> +   close_netns(ns);
>>
>> I would like to mention that I initially planned to directly delete the
>> namespace to perform the test cleanup, assuming it would be enough to 
>> consider
>> any non-root namespace flow_dissector to be removed. However I observed that 
>> it
>> made other tests dealing with flow_dissector starting to fail with -EEXIST,
>> despite all those tests being marked as "serial". I started examining this,
>> suspecting a real issue (a race between namespace deletion and flow dissector
>> attachment check, or a ns refcount issue) but before going further: is my
>> assumption right ? Should a mere namespace deletion be indeed enough to 
>> remove
>> the corresponding bpf flow dissector ? Or am I missing something ? If so I'll
>> keep examining this.
> 
> Don't think that's expected. Removing a namespace with an attached
> dissector program should (in theory) clearly detach it.

ACK, thanks, I'll keep investigating this then.

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Alexis Lothoré, Bootlin
Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering
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