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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: netdev@oss.sgi.com
Subject: request_module while holding rtnl semaphore
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2004 04:11:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41899DCF.3050804@trash.net> (raw)

There are several instances of request_module beeing called while
holding the rtnl semaphore in net/sched. A pratical problem with
this is the teql scheduler which deadlocks when calling register_netdev
from its init function. A more far-fetched problem would be some crazy
person with their modules in a nfs-mounted directory on a server
reachable over a dial-on-demand link. I couldn't come up with a
solution except for refusing to autoload teql, maybe someone else has
an idea.

Regards
Patrick

             reply	other threads:[~2004-11-04  3:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-04  3:11 Patrick McHardy [this message]
2004-11-05 23:35 ` request_module while holding rtnl semaphore Herbert Xu
2004-11-10  0:11   ` David S. Miller
2004-11-10  0:38     ` Patrick McHardy
2004-11-10  1:01     ` Thomas Graf
2004-11-10  1:10       ` Patrick McHardy
2004-11-10  1:22         ` Thomas Graf
2004-11-10  1:29           ` Patrick McHardy
2004-11-10  1:39             ` Thomas Graf
2004-11-10  1:41               ` Herbert Xu
2004-11-10 11:32                 ` Thomas Graf
2004-11-10 11:42                   ` Herbert Xu
2004-11-10 11:56                     ` Thomas Graf
2004-11-10  1:47               ` Patrick McHardy
2004-12-12 17:57                 ` Thomas Graf
2004-12-12 18:04                   ` Patrick McHardy
2004-12-13 16:53                     ` [RFC] tcf_bind_filter failure handling Thomas Graf
2004-12-13 18:11                       ` Patrick McHardy
2004-12-13 18:52                         ` Thomas Graf
2004-12-13 19:12                           ` Patrick McHardy
2004-12-13 19:23                           ` jamal
2004-12-13 19:32                             ` Thomas Graf
2004-11-10  1:15     ` request_module while holding rtnl semaphore Herbert Xu
2005-01-11  3:04     ` Patrick McHardy
2005-01-11  9:47       ` Thomas Graf
2005-01-11 21:05         ` Patrick McHardy
2005-01-11 21:47           ` Thomas Graf
2005-01-11 21:50             ` Thomas Graf
2005-01-11 22:18               ` Patrick McHardy

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