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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: amwang@redhat.com
Cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jiri@resnulli.us
Subject: Re: [Patch net-next v4] netpoll: fix a rtnl lock assertion failure
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2013 22:54:13 -0500 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130116.225413.1184047803896995845.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1358393418.3855.3.camel@cr0>

From: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 11:30:18 +0800

> On Wed, 2013-01-16 at 17:24 -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> On Tue, 2013-01-15 at 17:34 +0800, Cong Wang wrote:
>> >  	if (np->dev_name)
>> > -		ndev = dev_get_by_name(&init_net, np->dev_name);
>> > +		ndev = __dev_get_by_name(&init_net, np->dev_name);
>> 
>> This change brings interesting bugs.
> 
> Hmm, I didn't realize __dev_get_by_name() doesn't hold the device, so
> just call dev_hold() after this?

Why not just... call dev_get_by_name()?  It doesn't hurt to over-RCU
lock.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-01-17  3:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-15  9:34 [Patch net-next v4] netpoll: fix a rtnl lock assertion failure Cong Wang
2013-01-16 20:27 ` David Miller
2013-01-17  1:24 ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-17  3:30   ` Cong Wang
2013-01-17  3:54     ` David Miller [this message]
2013-01-17  4:18       ` Cong Wang
2013-01-17  4:53         ` Eric Dumazet
2013-01-17  3:52   ` David Miller
2013-01-17  4:00     ` Cong Wang

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