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authorYing Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com>2014-04-28 18:00:10 +0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-04-28 14:49:54 -0400
commiteab8c045732635e3833a5d58b17c6da08ff71f9e (patch)
tree8bd9c3e5aaee575abef950d992e92511bdc5f2b8 /net/tipc/name_distr.h
parentd7bb74c38cb3de40600dcbba50a4f84df290dc91 (diff)
tipc: move the delivery of named messages out of nametbl lock
Commit a89778d8baf19cd7e728d81121a294a06cedaad1 ("tipc: add support for link state subscriptions") introduced below possible deadlock scenario: CPU0 CPU1 T0: tipc_publish() link_timeout() T1: tipc_nametbl_publish() [grab node lock]* T2: [grab nametbl write lock]* link_state_event() T3: named_cluster_distribute() link_activate() T4: [grab node lock]* tipc_node_link_up() T5: tipc_nametbl_publish() T6: [grab nametble write lock]* The opposite order of holding nametbl write lock and node lock on above two different paths may result in a deadlock. If we move the the delivery of named messages via link out of name nametbl lock, the reverse order of holding locks will be eliminated, as a result, the deadlock will be killed as well. Signed-off-by: Ying Xue <ying.xue@windriver.com> Reviewed-by: Erik Hugne <erik.hugne@ericsson.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/tipc/name_distr.h')
-rw-r--r--net/tipc/name_distr.h5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/tipc/name_distr.h b/net/tipc/name_distr.h
index 9b312ccfd43e..47ff829f9361 100644
--- a/net/tipc/name_distr.h
+++ b/net/tipc/name_distr.h
@@ -39,8 +39,9 @@
#include "name_table.h"
-void tipc_named_publish(struct publication *publ);
-void tipc_named_withdraw(struct publication *publ);
+struct sk_buff *tipc_named_publish(struct publication *publ);
+struct sk_buff *tipc_named_withdraw(struct publication *publ);
+void named_cluster_distribute(struct sk_buff *buf);
void tipc_named_node_up(unsigned long node);
void tipc_named_rcv(struct sk_buff *buf);
void tipc_named_reinit(void);