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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: fw@strlen.de
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, kirill@shutemov.name,
	cwang@twopensource.com, tgraf@suug.ch, kaber@trash.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netlink: don't hold mutex in rcu callback when releasing mmapd ring
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 22:23:22 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150721.222322.1270246148178121431.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1437489230-23542-1-git-send-email-fw@strlen.de>

From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2015 16:33:50 +0200

> Kirill A. Shutemov says:
> 
> This simple test-case trigers few locking asserts in kernel:
 ...
> Cong Wang says:
> 
> We can't hold mutex lock in a rcu callback, [..]
> 
> Thomas Graf says:
> 
> The socket should be dead at this point. It might be simpler to
> add a netlink_release_ring() function which doesn't require
> locking at all.
> 
> Reported-by: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
> Diagnosed-by: Cong Wang <cwang@twopensource.com>
> Suggested-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
> Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>

Applied, thanks everyone.

      reply	other threads:[~2015-07-22  5:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-07-21 14:33 [PATCH net] netlink: don't hold mutex in rcu callback when releasing mmapd ring Florian Westphal
2015-07-22  5:23 ` David Miller [this message]

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