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Commit ffbe4a53 authored by Cong Wang's avatar Cong Wang Committed by David S. Miller
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vxlan: fix a soft lockup in vxlan module removal



This is a regression introduced by:

	commit fe5c3561
	Author: stephen hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
	Date:   Sat Jul 13 10:18:18 2013 -0700

	    vxlan: add necessary locking on device removal

The problem is that vxlan_dellink(), which is called with RTNL lock
held, tries to flush the workqueue synchronously, but apparently
igmp_join and igmp_leave work need to hold RTNL lock too, therefore we
have a soft lockup!

As suggested by Stephen, probably the flush_workqueue can just be
removed and let the normal refcounting work. The workqueue has a
reference to device and socket, therefore the cleanups should work
correctly.

Suggested-by: default avatarStephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Tested-by: default avatarCong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Acked-by: default avatarStephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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