Re: My system stops during startup with curretn git tree of 2.6.25-rc2

[Laszlo Attila Toth <panther@balabit.hu>]

David Miller wrote:
> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
> Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 13:04:59 +0100 (CET)
> 
>> On Sun, 17 Feb 2008, Zdenek Kabelac wrote:
>>
>>> It looks like there is something weird as my systems stops when the swap 
>>> is mounted. I've played bisection game and this is the commit which 
>>> makes the system unusable:
>>> # bad: [45b503548210fe6f23e92b856421c2a3f05fd034] [RTNETLINK]: Send a
>>> single notification on device state changes.
>>> git-bisect bad 45b503548210fe6f23e92b856421c2a3f05fd034
>>> I've tried to reverse this commit - and it has compiled & worked.
>> This commit is completely broken (it, for example, breaks locking around 
>> dev->link_mode), as has been already mentioned by Rafael at 
>> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/15/542
>>
>> Dave, do you have a proper fix queued? Otherwise I would propose just to 
>> revert it completely from Linus' tree for now.
> 
> I just reverted and I'll push that to Linus.
> 

Okay, but I can't figure out what's the problem with it. I don't have 
wireless card on my linux box also I can't test it but everything else 
works. Swap is mounted.


The concurrency cannot be a problem because the write operation is 
protected by a lock.

My only idea is the notification itself, because the netdev_state_change 
function is used which calls rtmsg_ifinfo too.

void netdev_state_change(struct net_device *dev)
{
         if (dev->flags & IFF_UP) {
                 call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_CHANGE, dev);
                 rtmsg_ifinfo(RTM_NEWLINK, dev, 0);
         }
}

Also last lines of my patch could be instead of
         if (modified)
                 netdev_state_change(dev);

the following:
if (modified && dev->flags & IFF_UP) {
   call_netdevice_notifiers(NETDEV_CHANGE, dev);
}

Regards,
Attila