Re: [PATCH net] vxlan: do not arm the ageing timer on a device that is down

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (main)
by Paolo Abeni <[email protected]>:

On Sun,  9 Aug 2026 20:18:29 +0900 you wrote:
> vxlan_changelink() arms vxlan->age_timer whenever the requested ageing
> interval differs from the configured one:
> 
> 	if (conf.age_interval != vxlan->cfg.age_interval)
> 		mod_timer(&vxlan->age_timer, jiffies);
> 
> There is no netif_running() test, so the timer is armed even on a device
> that was never brought up.  The only synchronous cancel in the driver is
> the timer_delete_sync() in vxlan_stop(), which is .ndo_stop.
> netif_close_many() drops devices without IFF_UP before
> __dev_close_many() runs, so that cancel is skipped for such a device.
> 
> [...]

Here is the summary with links:
  - [net] vxlan: do not arm the ageing timer on a device that is down
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/b37971686ec5

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