On Thu, Aug 25, 2016 at 12:03:30PM +0800, Xin Long wrote:
> > Or add a refcnt to its members. </idea>
> > NETDEV_UP, it gets a ++ if it's already there
> > NETDEV_DOWN, it gets a -- and cleans it up if it reaches 0
> > And the rest probably could stay the same.
> >
> Yes, it could also avoid the issue of amounts of duplicate addrs.
> or add a nic index variable to  its members.
> 
> But I still prefer the current patch.
> 1. This issue only happens when server bind 'ANY' addresses.
>     we don't need to add any new members to struct sctp_sockaddr_entry.
>     especially if it's a really corner issue,  we fix this as an improvement.
> 
> 2. It's yet two issues  here, the duplicate addrs may be from
>    a) different local NICs.
>    b) the same one NIC.
>    It may be unexpectable to filter them in NETDEV_UP/DOWN events.
> 
> 3. We check it only when sctp really binds it, just like sctp_do_bind.
> 
> What do you think ?

Yep, +1. LGTM the current patch, thanks.

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