From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: shemminger@osdl.org
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4] bridge netfilter deadlock
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 17:29:52 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061101.172952.101869474.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061101114550.459eead0@localhost.localdomain>
From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:45:50 -0800
> A deadlock was found in bridge netfilter code (2.4 only), when a device is removed.
> The device removal path causes a BPDU to be generated and ends up
> self deadlocking on the BR lock.
>
> Simple fix would be to avoid generating config bpdu's
> immediately when becoming root bridge, and just let the first hello
> timer tick do that.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Applied, I'll push this to Willy.
Thanks Stephen.
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2006-11-01 19:45 [PATCH 2.4] bridge netfilter deadlock Stephen Hemminger
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