linux-kernel - Re: 2.6.18-rc5 with GRE, iptables and Speedtouch ADSL, PPP over ATM

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Date:	Mon, 4 Sep 2006 12:44:14 +0400
From:	Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Cc:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Krzysztof Halasa <khc@...waw.pl>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.18-rc5 with GRE, iptables and Speedtouch ADSL, PPP over ATM

Hello!

> This path obviously breaks assumption 1) and therefore can lead to ABBA
> dead-locks.

Yes...


> I've looked at the history and there seems to be no reason for the lock
> to be held at all in dev_watchdog_up.  The lock appeared in day one and
> even there it was unnecessary.

Seems, it serializes mod_timer and timer handler to keep timer
in predictable state. Maybe, this is not necessary. A priori, it is required.

Note that in dev_watchdog_down() queue_lock is released before
taking xmit_lock. Probably, this is the thing which was supposed
to be done in dev_watchdog_up() too.

Alexey

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