netdev - Re: [PATCH] HDLC driver: use unregister_netdev instead of unregister

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Date:	Fri, 14 Dec 2007 13:36:22 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	khc@...waw.pl
Cc:	wangchen@...fujitsu.com, jgarzik@...ox.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HDLC driver: use unregister_netdev instead of
 unregister_netdevice

From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>
Date: Fri, 14 Dec 2007 22:28:07 +0100

> Wang Chen <wangchen@...fujitsu.com> writes:
> 
> > [PATCH] HDLC driver: use unregister_netdev instead of unregister_netdevice
> >
> > Since the caller and the upper caller doesn't hod the rtnl semaphore.
> > We should use unregister_netdev instead of unregister_netdevice.
> 
> NAK, not-a-bug. The caller actually holds rtnl, it goes through
> the netdev core ioctl dispatcher:
> 
> (unregister_netdevice+0x0/0x24) from (fr_ioctl+0x688/0x75c)
> /* fr_del_pvc() and fr_add_pvc() optimized out by gcc */
> (fr_ioctl+0x0/0x75c) from (hdlc_ioctl+0x4c/0x8c)
> (hdlc_ioctl+0x0/0x8c) from (hss_ioctl+0x3c/0x324)
> (hss_ioctl+0x0/0x324) from (dev_ifsioc+0x428/0x4e8)
> (dev_ifsioc+0x0/0x4e8) from (dev_ioctl+0x5d8/0x664)
> (dev_ioctl+0x0/0x664) from (sock_ioctl+0x90/0x254)
> (sock_ioctl+0x0/0x254) from (do_ioctl+0x34/0x78)
> (do_ioctl+0x0/0x78) from (vfs_ioctl+0x78/0x2a8)
> (vfs_ioctl+0x0/0x2a8) from (sys_ioctl+0x40/0x64)
> (sys_ioctl+0x0/0x64) from (ret_fast_syscall+0x0/0x2c)
> 
> The patch would make it deadlock.

Ok, I'll drop this patch, thanks for checking.
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