From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Thomas Graf <tgraf@suug.ch>
Subject: Re: netlink circular locking dependency
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:07:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4857B720.1070302@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080617130910.GA4632@ff.dom.local>
Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 02:50:19PM +0200, Patrick McHardy wrote:
> ...
>> Thanks for testing. Unfortunately the module unload races look
>> more complicated to fix and I'm busy with other things, so it
>> would great if someone else could fix this.
>
> Patrick, I wonder if simply adding an additional mutex e.g.
> genl_lock_table() around all the rest (after your patch) genl_locks
> could be enough until some major rework. This should prevent any
> new races and there are no lockups, I guess?
Not sure I understand you correctly, where exactly would
this mutex be taken?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-17 13:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-14 12:35 netlink circular locking dependency Marcel Holtmann
2008-06-16 21:34 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-06-16 21:48 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-17 1:45 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-06-17 12:50 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-17 13:09 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-06-17 13:07 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]
2008-06-17 13:24 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-06-17 13:27 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-17 13:43 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-06-18 4:30 ` David Miller
2008-06-18 6:15 ` Jarek Poplawski
2008-06-18 8:52 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-18 9:08 ` David Miller
2008-06-18 11:38 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-06-18 11:42 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-17 13:08 ` Thomas Graf
2008-06-17 13:19 ` Patrick McHardy
2008-06-17 8:49 ` Jarek Poplawski
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