netdev - Re: [PATCH] net: deadlock during net device unregistration

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Date:	Sun, 5 Oct 2008 15:38:49 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
Cc:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>,
	Benjamin Thery <benjamin.thery@...l.net>, davem@...emloft.net,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dlezcano@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: deadlock during net device unregistration

On Sun, Oct 05, 2008 at 09:28:23AM +0200, Stephen Hemminger wrote:

> I think there were issues with unregister triggering hotplug udev
> events, but that may have been long ago when rtnl_lock was
> a semaphore not a mutex.

Well as it is we have no hotplug events in netdev_run_todo at
all.  They're all in unregister_netdevice which is where they
should be and that runs under the RTNL.

In fact it would be a bug if we had anything in netdev_run_todo
tied to sysfs because once we get here we've relinquished our
ownership of the device name so someone else is free to readd
a device with the same name.

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