netdev - Re: rtnl_mutex deadlock?

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Message-ID: <20150806234250.GB22588@gondor.apana.org.au>
Date:	Fri, 7 Aug 2015 07:42:50 +0800
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Jiri Pirko <jiri@...nulli.us>,
	Cong Wang <cwang@...pensource.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Nicolas Dichtel <nicolas.dichtel@...nd.com>,
	Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>, Scott Feldman <sfeldma@...il.com>,
	Network Development <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: rtnl_mutex deadlock?

On Fri, Aug 07, 2015 at 12:39:47AM +0200, Daniel Borkmann wrote:
>
> window was too small to trigger an error. I think in any case, remapping
> seems okay.

Oh there is no doubt that we need your EBUSY remapping patch.
It's just that it's very unlikely for this to be responsible
for the dead-lock that Linus saw.

Cheers,
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