Subject: Re: Deadlock in IPv6 code while garbage collection on the rwlock protecting the routing tree.

From: Jarek Poplawski <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:48:17 +0000

On 23-01-2010 11:22, David Miller wrote:
> This is all well and good, but meanwhile someone does need to
> fix the deadlock originally reported here :-)

I hope I miss something ;-) but I can't see this deadlock; the
write_lock_bh(&table->tb6_lock) is taken from a timer in this case,
not from the thread holding read_lock_bh(&table->tb6_lock).

Jarek P.