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Commit c71380ff authored by Nikolay Aleksandrov's avatar Nikolay Aleksandrov Committed by David S. Miller
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netconsole: fix a deadlock with rtnl and netconsole's mutex



This bug was introduced by commit
7a163bfb ("netconsole: avoid a crash with
multiple sysfs writers"). In store_enabled() we have the following
sequence: acquire nt->mutex then rtnl, but in the netconsole netdev
notifier we have rtnl then nt->mutex effectively leading to a deadlock.
The NULL pointer dereference that the above commit tries to fix is
actually due to another bug in netpoll_cleanup(). This is fixed by dropping
the mutex from the netdev notifier as it's already protected by rtnl.

Signed-off-by: default avatarNikolay Aleksandrov <nikolay@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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