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From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, djohnson@starentnetworks.com,
	sakkiped@starentnetworks.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Deadlock in IPv6 code while garbage collection on the rwlock protecting the routing tree.
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:48:17 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100126094817.GA7780@ff.dom.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100123.022210.56302976.davem@davemloft.net>

On 23-01-2010 11:22, David Miller wrote:
> This is all well and good, but meanwhile someone does need to
> fix the deadlock originally reported here :-)

I hope I miss something ;-) but I can't see this deadlock; the
write_lock_bh(&table->tb6_lock) is taken from a timer in this case,
not from the thread holding read_lock_bh(&table->tb6_lock).

Jarek P.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-26  9:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-22 21:57 Deadlock in IPv6 code while garbage collection on the rwlock protecting the routing tree Akkipeddi, Srinivas
2009-12-22 22:36 ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-12-23 17:44   ` Dave Johnson
2009-12-23 18:13     ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-23 10:22       ` David Miller
2010-01-26  9:48         ` Jarek Poplawski [this message]
2010-01-26 10:35           ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-27  9:59             ` [PATCH] ipv6: Fix possible NULL dereference in icmp6_dst_alloc Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-27 10:14               ` David Miller
2010-01-27 10:34                 ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-27 11:04                   ` David Miller
2010-01-27 12:17                     ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-27 12:23                       ` David Miller
2010-01-27 12:43                         ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-27 13:14                           ` David Miller
2010-01-27 13:28                             ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-27 12:35                       ` Atis Elsts

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