Subject: Re: [PATCH next] netlink: prevent deadlock in ctrl_dumpfamily()

From: Sergey Senozhatsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2013 22:31:17 +0300

On (08/20/13 14:03), Berg, Johannes wrote:
> > +	if (need_locking) {
> > +		/* genl_mutex could be already locked in genl_rcv_msg() */
> > +		rt = genl_family_find_byid(cb->nlh->nlmsg_type);
> > +		need_locking = need_locking && rt->parallel_ops;
> > +	}
> 
> This is equivalent to reverting the patch because parallel_ops will be false for the genl family. :-)
>

sorry, didn't notice that there is already a thread on lkml regarding
this issue. will follow that discussion. the reason was that I see an
actual deadlock on my machine during certain network activities, but
lockdep is silent.

thanks,
	-ss

> johannes
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