ipv6: addrconf: Avoid calling netdevice notifiers with RCU read-side lock
Cong Wang reports that lockdep detected suspicious RCU usage while enabling IPV6 forwarding: [ 1123.310275] =============================== [ 1123.442202] [ INFO: suspicious RCU usage. ] [ 1123.558207] 3.6.0-rc1+ #109 Not tainted [ 1123.665204] ------------------------------- [ 1123.768254] include/linux/rcupdate.h:430 Illegal context switch in RCU read-side critical section! [ 1123.992320] [ 1123.992320] other info that might help us debug this: [ 1123.992320] [ 1124.307382] [ 1124.307382] rcu_scheduler_active = 1, debug_locks = 0 [ 1124.522220] 2 locks held by sysctl/5710: [ 1124.648364] #0: (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff81768498>] rtnl_trylock+0x15/0x17 [ 1124.882211] #1: (rcu_read_lock){.+.+.+}, at: [<ffffffff81871df8>] rcu_lock_acquire+0x0/0x29 [ 1125.085209] [ 1125.085209] stack backtrace: [ 1125.332213] Pid: 5710, comm: sysctl Not tainted 3.6.0-rc1+ #109 [ 1125.441291] Call Trace: [ 1125.545281] [<ffffffff8109d915>] lockdep_rcu_suspicious+0x109/0x112 [ 1125.667212] [<ffffffff8107c240>] rcu_preempt_sleep_check+0x45/0x47 [ 1125.781838] [<ffffffff8107c260>] __might_sleep+0x1e/0x19b [...] [ 1127.445223] [<ffffffff81757ac5>] call_netdevice_notifiers+0x4a/0x4f [...] [ 1127.772188] [<ffffffff8175e125>] dev_disable_lro+0x32/0x6b [ 1127.885174] [<ffffffff81872d26>] dev_forward_change+0x30/0xcb [ 1128.013214] [<ffffffff818738c4>] addrconf_forward_change+0x85/0xc5 [...] addrconf_forward_change() uses RCU iteration over the netdev list, which is unnecessary since it already holds the RTNL lock. We also cannot reasonably require netdevice notifier functions not to sleep. Reported-by:Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by:
Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by:
David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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