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From: Taehee Yoo <ap420073@gmail.com>
To: Nikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@nvidia.com>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: bridge@lists.linux-foundation.org, cong.wang@bytedance.com,
	daniel@iogearbox.net, yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org,
	j.vosburgh@gmail.com, dsahern@kernel.org, roopa@nvidia.com,
	ast@kernel.org, bjorn@kernel.org, vfalico@gmail.com,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, kuba@kernel.org, weiwan@google.com,
	andriin@fb.com, davem@davemloft.net
Subject: Re: [Bridge] [PATCH net 2/2] net: bridge: fix lockdep multicast_lock false positive splat
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 00:17:52 +0900	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <68b18d15-d472-3305-4f91-5e61f8b60488@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1e8cda49-4bc3-6f0b-29f3-97848aab18f0@nvidia.com>

On 4/26/21 10:15 PM, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
 > On 26/04/2021 15:48, Herbert Xu wrote:

Hi Nikolay and Herbert,
Thank you for the reviews!

 >> On Sun, Apr 25, 2021 at 07:45:27PM +0300, Nikolay Aleksandrov wrote:
 >>>
 >>> Ugh.. that's just very ugly. :) The setup you've described above is 
by all means invalid, but
 >>> possible unfortunately. The bridge already checks if it's being 
added as a port to another
 >>> bridge, but not through multiple levels of indirection. These locks 
are completely unrelated
 >>> as they're in very different contexts (different devices).
 >>
 >> Surely we should forbid this? Otherwise what's to stop someone
 >> from creating a loop?
 >>
 >> Cheers,
 >>
 >
 > Indeed that would be best, it's very easy to loop them.
 >

We can make very various interface graphs with master/slave interface types.
So, if we need something to forbid it, I think it should be generic 
code, not only for the bridge module.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-04-26 15:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-04-25 15:57 [Bridge] [PATCH net v2 0/2] net: fix lockdep false positive splat Taehee Yoo
2021-04-25 15:57 ` [Bridge] [PATCH net v2 1/2] net: core: make bond_get_lowest_level_rcu() generic Taehee Yoo
2021-04-25 18:03   ` Heiner Kallweit
2021-04-26 15:24     ` Taehee Yoo
2021-04-25 15:57 ` [Bridge] [PATCH net 2/2] net: bridge: fix lockdep multicast_lock false positive splat Taehee Yoo
2021-04-25 16:45   ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2021-04-26 12:48     ` Herbert Xu
2021-04-26 13:15       ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
2021-04-26 15:17         ` Taehee Yoo [this message]
2021-04-26 15:39           ` Nikolay Aleksandrov
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-04-25 15:52 [Bridge] [PATCH net 0/2] Subject: [PATCH net 0/2] net: fix lockdep " Taehee Yoo
2021-04-25 15:52 ` [Bridge] [PATCH net 2/2] net: bridge: fix lockdep multicast_lock " Taehee Yoo

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