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Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 01:34:05 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: herbert@...dor.apana.org.au Cc: jdelvare@...e.de, netdev@...r.kernel.org, kuznet@....inr.ac.ru Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: Let inet_diag and friends autoload From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au> Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 16:21:23 +0800 > David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> wrote: > > > > I'm concerned it might be dangerous to load the module in > > this context, the RTNL semaphore is held and the module we > > are requesting could easily try to take it and deadlock. > > We shouldn't be holding the RTNL here. AFAICS we only hold > inet_diag_mutex which is used in just one spot. You're right. I'll reconsider these patches. - 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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