From: Martin KaFai Lau <ka...@fb.com> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 00:58:00 -0700
> This patch series fixes a potential deadlock when creating a pcpu rt. > It happens when dst_alloc() decided to run gc. Something like this: > > read_lock(&table->tb6_lock); > ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc() > => dst_alloc() > => ip6_dst_gc() > => write_lock(&table->tb6_lock); /* oops */ > > Patch 1 and 2 are some prep works. > Patch 3 is the fix. > > Original report: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102291 > > Steinar, the patches can also be applied to 4.2-rc5 (I just tried). > Can you help to test them? Thanks! This series looks fine to me. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
