From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: Possible deadlock in ipv6? Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:54:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20120611.235453.953830769326224643.davem@davemloft.net> References: <4FCF6DF4.2090304@parallels.com> <1338998019.26966.10.camel@edumazet-glaptop> <1338998314.26966.12.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: vdavydov@parallels.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org To: eric.dumazet@gmail.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:48711 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751323Ab2FLGy4 (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jun 2012 02:54:56 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1338998314.26966.12.camel@edumazet-glaptop> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:58:34 +0200 > And it seems this neigh_down() can be removed, its called later > (after dev->ip6_ptr is cleared) It is unclear whether we need to do the the neigh_down() in both the 'how' and '!how' cases. If so then we can't make this change.