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Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2007 20:36:32 +0800
From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To: johannes@...solutions.net (Johannes Berg)
Cc: herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, satyam@...radead.org, flo@...822.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: BUG: scheduling while atomic: ifconfig/0x00000002/4170
Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net> wrote:
>
> Hah, I suspected as much but didn't have a chance to look yet. I had
> plans to replace that sub_if_list with an RCU list and not require the
> lock there, but that's far off. Any ideas how to fix this? We can't
> reject the master stop so we have to walk the list, I guess we'll have
> to audit the other list manipulation places, I think they're all under
> RTNL.
Yeah I think they're all under RTNL too. So you don't need to
take the lock here at all since you should already have the RTNL.
Cheers,
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