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From: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com>
To: "Berg, Johannes" <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>,
	Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>,
	Gao feng <gaofeng@cn.fujitsu.com>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH next] netlink: prevent deadlock in ctrl_dumpfamily()
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 22:31:17 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130820193117.GA2239@swordfish> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1DC40B07CD6EC041A66726C271A73AE61AA6F1BC@IRSMSX102.ger.corp.intel.com>

On (08/20/13 14:03), Berg, Johannes wrote:
> > +	if (need_locking) {
> > +		/* genl_mutex could be already locked in genl_rcv_msg() */
> > +		rt = genl_family_find_byid(cb->nlh->nlmsg_type);
> > +		need_locking = need_locking && rt->parallel_ops;
> > +	}
> 
> This is equivalent to reverting the patch because parallel_ops will be false for the genl family. :-)
>

sorry, didn't notice that there is already a thread on lkml regarding
this issue. will follow that discussion. the reason was that I see an
actual deadlock on my machine during certain network activities, but
lockdep is silent.

thanks,
	-ss

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      reply	other threads:[~2013-08-20 19:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-08-20 13:50 [PATCH next] netlink: prevent deadlock in ctrl_dumpfamily() Sergey Senozhatsky
2013-08-20 14:03 ` Berg, Johannes
2013-08-20 19:31   ` Sergey Senozhatsky [this message]

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