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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2013-08-21 16:08:02 +0200
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-08-22 13:24:02 -0700
commit9d47b380563174e5c15776ce6ca9bab4ee7d59e3 (patch)
treec88dbe342a7ece90aab4341cb7b8112293e86689 /net/netlink/genetlink.c
parente75dc677ff8d06ffa61bef6fee436227ae5440c6 (diff)
Revert "genetlink: fix family dump race"
This reverts commit 58ad436fcf49810aa006016107f494c9ac9013db. It turns out that the change introduced a potential deadlock by causing a locking dependency with netlink's cb_mutex. I can't seem to find a way to resolve this without doing major changes to the locking, so revert this. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/netlink/genetlink.c')
-rw-r--r--net/netlink/genetlink.c7
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
index f85f8a2ad6c..512718adb0d 100644
--- a/net/netlink/genetlink.c
+++ b/net/netlink/genetlink.c
@@ -789,10 +789,6 @@ static int ctrl_dumpfamily(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
struct net *net = sock_net(skb->sk);
int chains_to_skip = cb->args[0];
int fams_to_skip = cb->args[1];
- bool need_locking = chains_to_skip || fams_to_skip;
-
- if (need_locking)
- genl_lock();
for (i = chains_to_skip; i < GENL_FAM_TAB_SIZE; i++) {
n = 0;
@@ -814,9 +810,6 @@ errout:
cb->args[0] = i;
cb->args[1] = n;
- if (need_locking)
- genl_unlock();
-
return skb->len;
}