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Commit 9a0b1e8b authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller
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net: pktgen: remove rcu locking in pktgen_change_name()

After Jesper commit back in linux-3.18, we trigger a lockdep
splat in proc_create_data() while allocating memory from
pktgen_change_name().

This patch converts t->if_lock to a mutex, since it is now only
used from control path, and adds proper locking to pktgen_change_name()

1) pktgen_thread_lock to protect the outer loop (iterating threads)
2) t->if_lock to protect the inner loop (iterating devices)

Note that before Jesper patch, pktgen_change_name() was lacking proper
protection, but lockdep was not able to detect the problem.

Fixes: 8788370a

 ("pktgen: RCU-ify "if_list" to remove lock in next_to_run()")
Reported-by: default avatarJohn Sperbeck <jsperbeck@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
Cc: Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent a04a480d
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