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Message-Id: <E1ITGb2-0006Be-00@gondolin.me.apana.org.au> 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, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, michal.k.k.piotrowski@...il.com, ipw3945-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, yi.zhu@...el.com, flamingice@...rmilk.net 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, -- Visit Openswan at http://www.openswan.org/ Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/pubkey.txt - 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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