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authorKirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com>2018-03-30 19:38:27 +0300
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2018-03-31 22:24:58 -0400
commitfc1dd36992bb041b4470120aecf8986910c56088 (patch)
tree7fbea89ad406d55660f89abf4f380b7e010b565d /drivers/net/dummy.c
parentc679f6a26dc3d450b76e94717850a14ff706cc58 (diff)
net: Remove net_rwsem from {, un}register_netdevice_notifier()
These functions take net_rwsem, while wireless_nlevent_flush() also takes it. But down_read() can't be taken recursive, because of rw_semaphore design, which prevents it to be occupied by only readers forever. Since we take pernet_ops_rwsem in {,un}register_netdevice_notifier(), net list can't change, so these down_read()/up_read() can be removed. Fixes: f0b07bb151b0 "net: Introduce net_rwsem to protect net_namespace_list" Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <ktkhai@virtuozzo.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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