netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2] Revert "netns: don't disable BHs when locking "nsid

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Date:   Mon, 7 Sep 2020 14:37:24 -0700
From:   Jakub Kicinski <kuba@...nel.org>
To:     Taehee Yoo <ap420073@...il.com>
Cc:     davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org, gnault@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] Revert "netns: don't disable BHs when locking
 "nsid_lock""

On Mon,  7 Sep 2020 15:54:41 +0000 Taehee Yoo wrote:
> This reverts commit 8d7e5dee972f1cde2ba96c621f1541fa36e7d4f4.
> 
> To protect netns id, the nsid_lock is used when netns id is being
> allocated and removed by peernet2id_alloc() and unhash_nsid().
> The nsid_lock can be used in BH context but only spin_lock() is used
> in this code.
> Using spin_lock() instead of spin_lock_bh() can result in a deadlock in
> the following scenario reported by the lockdep.
> In order to avoid a deadlock, the spin_lock_bh() should be used instead
> of spin_lock() to acquire nsid_lock.

Applied, thank you!