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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net 0/3] ipv6: Fix a potential deadlock when
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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 14:28:27 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Martin KaFai Lau <kafai@fb.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 11:05:51 -0700

> v1 -> v2:
> A minor change in the commit message of patch 2.
> 
> This patch series fixes a potential deadlock when creating a pcpu rt.
> It happens when dst_alloc() decided to run gc. Something like this:
> 
> read_lock(&table->tb6_lock);
> ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc()
> => dst_alloc()
> => ip6_dst_gc()
> => write_lock(&table->tb6_lock); /* oops */
> 
> Patch 1 and 2 are some prep works.
> Patch 3 is the fix.
> 
> Original report: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102291

Series applied.