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authorCong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>2013-08-07 16:43:22 +0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2013-08-09 11:41:45 -0700
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vxlan: fix a soft lockup in vxlan module removal
This is a regression introduced by: commit fe5c3561e6f0ac7c9546209f01351113c1b77ec8 Author: stephen hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Date: Sat Jul 13 10:18:18 2013 -0700 vxlan: add necessary locking on device removal The problem is that vxlan_dellink(), which is called with RTNL lock held, tries to flush the workqueue synchronously, but apparently igmp_join and igmp_leave work need to hold RTNL lock too, therefore we have a soft lockup! As suggested by Stephen, probably the flush_workqueue can just be removed and let the normal refcounting work. The workqueue has a reference to device and socket, therefore the cleanups should work correctly. Suggested-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Cc: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Tested-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <stephen@networkplumber.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/vxlan.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/vxlan.c b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
index 11a6c03d202a..767f7af3bd40 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxlan.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxlan.c
@@ -1793,8 +1793,6 @@ static void vxlan_dellink(struct net_device *dev, struct list_head *head)
struct vxlan_net *vn = net_generic(dev_net(dev), vxlan_net_id);
struct vxlan_dev *vxlan = netdev_priv(dev);
- flush_workqueue(vxlan_wq);
-
spin_lock(&vn->sock_lock);
hlist_del_rcu(&vxlan->hlist);
spin_unlock(&vn->sock_lock);