From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next V2] tuntap: fix possible deadlock when fail to
 register netdev
Date: Thu, 07 Dec 2017 21:36:06 -0800
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        Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
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On Fri, 2017-12-08 at 12:02 +0800, Jason Wang wrote:
> Private destructor could be called when register_netdev() fail with
> rtnl lock held. This will lead deadlock in tun_free_netdev() who
> tries
> to hold rtnl_lock. Fixing this by switching to use spinlock to
> synchronize.
> 
> Fixes: 96f84061620c ("tun: add eBPF based queue selection method")
> Reported-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> Cc: Willem de Bruijn <willemb@google.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

Thanks.