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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jamie@audible.transient.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.38-rc1: arp triggers RTNL assertion
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 23:13:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1295647999.2609.31.camel@edumazet-laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110121.130657.106806953.davem@davemloft.net>

Le vendredi 21 janvier 2011 à 13:06 -0800, David Miller a écrit :
> From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2011 19:52:56 +0100
> 
> > Here is how I fixed this, thanks again Jamie !
> > 
> > [PATCH] net: neighbour: pneigh_lookup() doesnt need RTNL
> 
> Eric, I don't think we can do this.
> 
> Fundamentally, any time a user operation changes the configuration
> of the networking, we must hold the RTNL.
> 
> Eliding the RTNL for lookups is fine, but for things that change
> state it is not.
> 
> I therefore think you'll need to rework the arp_ioctl() portions
> of the commit that introduced this regression.
> 

Hmm, I'll think about it, no problem.



  reply	other threads:[~2011-01-21 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-01-21  6:17 2.6.38-rc1: arp triggers RTNL assertion Jamie Heilman
2011-01-21  7:12 ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-21 14:02   ` Richard Cochran
2011-01-21 18:52   ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-21 21:06     ` David Miller
2011-01-21 22:13       ` Eric Dumazet [this message]
2011-01-24 21:11       ` Eric Dumazet
2011-01-24 21:14         ` David Miller

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