On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:41:59AM +0100, Simon Wunderlich wrote:
This patch needs rework for two reasons:
* we still need to defer the softif as well, otherwise we keep the
deadlock for the softif
* work struct and delayed_work are mixed up here
if you think to the fact that you are
This patch needs rework for two reasons:
* we still need to defer the softif as well, otherwise we keep the
deadlock for the softif
* work struct and delayed_work are mixed up here
I'll post a revised version soon.
Cheers,
Simon
On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 12:05:05AM +0100, Simon
When processing the unregister notify for a hard interface, removing
the sysfs files may lead to a circular deadlock (rtnl mutex -
s_active).
To overcome this problem, postpone the sysfs removal in a worker.
Reported-by: Sasha Levin sasha.le...@oracle.com
Reported-by: Sven Eckelmann
