netdev - Re: A soft lockup in vxlan module

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Message-ID: <1375842884.11370.23.camel@cr0>
Date:	Wed, 07 Aug 2013 10:34:44 +0800
From:	Cong Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: A soft lockup in vxlan module

On Tue, 2013-08-06 at 19:18 -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> Calling unlock in dellink is not safe.

This is my feeling as well.

> can you reproduce with 3.10 or 3.11-rc?
> 

For net-next, I always compile modules as builtin, therefore can't test
it. But clearly the code is same.

The steps to reproduce it are:

1) ping over vxlan0
2) modprobe -r vxlan


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