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Commit 1f979b11 authored by David S. Miller's avatar David S. Miller
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Merge branch 'ipv6_percpu_rt_deadlock'

Martin KaFai Lau says:

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ipv6: Fix a potential deadlock when creating pcpu rt

v1 -> v2:
A minor change in the commit message of patch 2.

This patch series fixes a potential deadlock when creating a pcpu rt.
It happens when dst_alloc() decided to run gc. Something like this:

read_lock(&table->tb6_lock);
ip6_rt_pcpu_alloc()
=> dst_alloc()
=> ip6_dst_gc()
=> write_lock(&table->tb6_lock); /* oops */

Patch 1 and 2 are some prep works.
Patch 3 is the fix.

Original report: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=102291


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Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parents 776829de 9c7370a1
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