netdev - Re: Possible deadlock in ipv6?

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Message-Id: <20120611.235453.953830769326224643.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Mon, 11 Jun 2012 23:54:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	vdavydov@...allels.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Possible deadlock in ipv6?

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2012 17:58:34 +0200

> And it seems this neigh_down() can be removed, its called later
> (after dev->ip6_ptr is cleared)

It is unclear whether we need to do the the neigh_down() in both
the 'how' and '!how' cases.  If so then we can't make this change.

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