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From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: IPv4/IPv6 sysctl unregistration deadlock
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 14:19:03 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090225061902.GA32430@gondor.apana.org.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49A4D5D5.5090602@trash.net>

On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 06:23:33AM +0100, Patrick McHardy wrote:
>
> An easy fix would be to keep track of whether sysctl unregistration
> is in progress in IPv4/IPv6 and ignore new requests from that point
> on. Its not very elegant though, so I was wondering whether anyone
> has a better suggestion.

We could make the unregistration asynchronous and invoke a callback
when it's done.  Then we can simply hold a net_device refcount and
relinquish it in the callback.

Cheers,
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-25  6:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-25  5:23 IPv4/IPv6 sysctl unregistration deadlock Patrick McHardy
2009-02-25  6:19 ` Herbert Xu [this message]
2009-02-25  6:23   ` Patrick McHardy
2009-02-25  7:18     ` Patrick McHardy
2009-02-25  8:43       ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-26  6:06         ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-02-26  6:10         ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-02-26  6:22           ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-26  7:18             ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-02-26 16:49               ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-02-26 19:01                 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-02-26 20:24                   ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-02-27  0:59                 ` Herbert Xu
2009-02-27  1:25                   ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-02-27 18:26                 ` Ben Greear
2009-02-27 18:38                   ` Stephen Hemminger
2009-03-02 11:07                     ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-02 11:21                       ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-02 22:11                     ` Ben Greear
2009-03-02 22:20                       ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-02 22:47                         ` David Miller
2009-03-02 23:03                           ` Patrick McHardy
2009-03-03  8:48                             ` David Miller
2009-03-08  3:36                               ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-02-26 16:55       ` Stephen Hemminger

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