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Date: Sun, 18 Mar 2007 22:25:59 +0200 From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@....mellanox.co.il> To: Alexey Kuznetsov <kuznet@....inr.ac.ru> Cc: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@....mellanox.co.il>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, general@...ts.openfabrics.org, Roland Dreier <rolandd@...co.com> Subject: Re: dst_ifdown breaks infiniband? > > Why is neighbour->dev changed here? > > It holds reference to device and prevents its destruction. > If dst is held somewhere, we cannot destroy the device and deadlock > while unregister. BTW, can this ever happen for the loopback device itself? Is it ever unregistered? -- MST - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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