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From: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
To: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG?] dev_close() is called with locks held
Date: Fri, 19 Nov 2004 10:40:53 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <419DBFA5.8080602@trash.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <419DB6BA.5040901@sw.ru>

Kirill Korotaev wrote:

> Hello,
>
> looks like a bug in 2.4/2.6 kernels:
>
> 1. dev_close() function is blocking. it calls schedule() inside and 
> calls blocking dev_deactivate() function.
>
> 2. But... call chain
> dev_ioctl() -> dev_ifsioc() -> dev_change_flags() calls dev_close() 
> under read_lock(&dev_base_lock)...
>
> Bug?

dev_change_flags is only called for SIOCSIFFLAGS. dev_ioctl
takes the rtnl semaphore in this case, so no bug.

Regards
Patrick



      reply	other threads:[~2004-11-19  9:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-19  9:02 [BUG?] dev_close() is called with locks held Kirill Korotaev
2004-11-19  9:40 ` Patrick McHardy [this message]

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