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authorNeil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>2013-02-11 10:25:30 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-02-11 19:19:33 -0500
commit2cde6acd49daca58b96f1fbc697492825511ad31 (patch)
tree77353244a904fbb41e8658cceedb4b5120c5552a /net/bridge/br_device.c
parentf05de73bf82fbbc00265c06d12efb7273f7dc54a (diff)
netpoll: Fix __netpoll_rcu_free so that it can hold the rtnl lock
__netpoll_rcu_free is used to free netpoll structures when the rtnl_lock is already held. The mechanism is used to asynchronously call __netpoll_cleanup outside of the holding of the rtnl_lock, so as to avoid deadlock. Unfortunately, __netpoll_cleanup modifies pointers (dev->np), which means the rtnl_lock must be held while calling it. Further, it cannot be held, because rcu callbacks may be issued in softirq contexts, which cannot sleep. Fix this by converting the rcu callback to a work queue that is guaranteed to get scheduled in process context, so that we can hold the rtnl properly while calling __netpoll_cleanup Tested successfully by myself. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> CC: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> CC: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/bridge/br_device.c')
-rw-r--r--net/bridge/br_device.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/bridge/br_device.c b/net/bridge/br_device.c
index ba6fb2d60940..ca98fa5b2c78 100644
--- a/net/bridge/br_device.c
+++ b/net/bridge/br_device.c
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ void br_netpoll_disable(struct net_bridge_port *p)
p->np = NULL;
- __netpoll_free_rcu(np);
+ __netpoll_free_async(np);
}
#endif