[PATCH] net/tap: Bug fix to populate fds in secondary process

[Stephen Hemminger]

On Wed, 19 Jan 2022 10:03:49 +0530
kumaraparameshwaran rathinavel <kumaraparamesh92 at gmail.com> wrote:

> > > Why is this necessary?  dev->data is already in memory shared between  
> > primary  
> > > and secondary process.  
> >  
> > > The question is about the two assignments that happen in secondary proces
> > > that change dev->data->nb_rx_queues and dev->data->nb_tx_queues.  These  
> > are  
> > > shared and should not need to be modified here.  
> >  
>  Sure my bad. Misunderstood the comment. Yes, this should not be done, will
> remove the assignments.
 
No problem, primary/secondary process support is a bug farm because it
is too easy to have pointer that is from primary process leak into secondary.

I just wanted to make sure there wasn't something wrong in the infrastructure.