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Commit c9fbd71f authored by Debabrata Banerjee's avatar Debabrata Banerjee Committed by David S. Miller
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netpoll: allow cleanup to be synchronous



This fixes a problem introduced by:
commit 2cde6acd ("netpoll: Fix __netpoll_rcu_free so that it can hold the rtnl lock")

When using netconsole on a bond, __netpoll_cleanup can asynchronously
recurse multiple times, each __netpoll_free_async call can result in
more __netpoll_free_async's. This means there is now a race between
cleanup_work queues on multiple netpoll_info's on multiple devices and
the configuration of a new netpoll. For example if a netconsole is set
to enable 0, reconfigured, and enable 1 immediately, this netconsole
will likely not work.

Given the reason for __netpoll_free_async is it can be called when rtnl
is not locked, if it is locked, we should be able to execute
synchronously. It appears to be locked everywhere it's called from.

Generalize the design pattern from the teaming driver for current
callers of __netpoll_free_async.

CC: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
CC: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDebabrata Banerjee <dbanerje@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 2e2d6f03
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