On Sep 6, 2013, at 12:53 PM, Ethan Jackson <[email protected]> wrote:
> Holding the mac learning rwlock while calling send_packet() which
> calls xlate_actions() is dangerous because somewhere deep in the chain
> the same lock might be acquired causing a deadlock. Though we haven't
> run into this problem in testing, it seems prudent to refactor it.
This would be a problem only if there was a nested attempt on a write lock,
right?
Jarno
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