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