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authorSimon Wunderlich <simon.wunderlich@s2003.tu-chemnitz.de>2013-01-11 10:19:51 +0100
committerAntonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>2013-01-19 21:18:12 +0800
commit5bc44dc8458cbac08c664f2f337326bf87cc924b (patch)
tree05828c0b6a6f00138a539c0ce39e3ea0b109dbce /net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
parente76e4320a26ba6301dfd3e9a28a1e3faccd302ab (diff)
batman-adv: postpone sysfs removal when unregistering
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.levin@oracle.com> Reported-by: Sven Eckelmann <sven@narfation.org> Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich <siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de> Signed-off-by: Marek Lindner <lindner_marek@yahoo.de> Signed-off-by: Antonio Quartulli <ordex@autistici.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c')
-rw-r--r--net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c24
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
index f1d37cd8181..cb3191fe60f 100644
--- a/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
+++ b/net/batman-adv/hard-interface.c
@@ -457,6 +457,24 @@ out:
batadv_hardif_free_ref(primary_if);
}
+/**
+ * batadv_hardif_remove_interface_finish - cleans up the remains of a hardif
+ * @work: work queue item
+ *
+ * Free the parts of the hard interface which can not be removed under
+ * rtnl lock (to prevent deadlock situations).
+ */
+static void batadv_hardif_remove_interface_finish(struct work_struct *work)
+{
+ struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface;
+
+ hard_iface = container_of(work, struct batadv_hard_iface,
+ cleanup_work);
+
+ batadv_sysfs_del_hardif(&hard_iface->hardif_obj);
+ batadv_hardif_free_ref(hard_iface);
+}
+
static struct batadv_hard_iface *
batadv_hardif_add_interface(struct net_device *net_dev)
{
@@ -484,6 +502,9 @@ batadv_hardif_add_interface(struct net_device *net_dev)
hard_iface->soft_iface = NULL;
hard_iface->if_status = BATADV_IF_NOT_IN_USE;
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&hard_iface->list);
+ INIT_WORK(&hard_iface->cleanup_work,
+ batadv_hardif_remove_interface_finish);
+
/* extra reference for return */
atomic_set(&hard_iface->refcount, 2);
@@ -518,8 +539,7 @@ static void batadv_hardif_remove_interface(struct batadv_hard_iface *hard_iface)
return;
hard_iface->if_status = BATADV_IF_TO_BE_REMOVED;
- batadv_sysfs_del_hardif(&hard_iface->hardif_obj);
- batadv_hardif_free_ref(hard_iface);
+ queue_work(batadv_event_workqueue, &hard_iface->cleanup_work);
}
void batadv_hardif_remove_interfaces(void)