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* [BUG?] dev_close() is called with locks held
@ 2004-11-19  9:02 Kirill Korotaev
  2004-11-19  9:40 ` Patrick McHardy
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Kirill Korotaev @ 2004-11-19  9:02 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel

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?

Kirill


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* Re: [BUG?] dev_close() is called with locks held
  2004-11-19  9:02 [BUG?] dev_close() is called with locks held Kirill Korotaev
@ 2004-11-19  9:40 ` Patrick McHardy
  0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Patrick McHardy @ 2004-11-19  9:40 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Kirill Korotaev; +Cc: linux-kernel

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



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