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Diffstat (limited to 'net')
| -rw-r--r-- | net/tipc/config.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/net/tipc/config.c b/net/tipc/config.c index b25a396b7e1e..4785bf26cdf4 100644 --- a/net/tipc/config.c +++ b/net/tipc/config.c @@ -184,13 +184,12 @@ static struct sk_buff *cfg_set_own_addr(void) " (cannot change node address once assigned)"); /* - * Must release all spinlocks before calling start_net() because - * Linux version of TIPC calls eth_media_start() which calls - * register_netdevice_notifier() which may block! - * - * Temporarily releasing the lock should be harmless for non-Linux TIPC, - * but Linux version of eth_media_start() should really be reworked - * so that it can be called with spinlocks held. + * Must temporarily release configuration spinlock while switching into + * networking mode as it calls tipc_eth_media_start(), which may sleep. + * Releasing the lock is harmless as other locally-issued configuration + * commands won't occur until this one completes, and remotely-issued + * configuration commands can't be received until a local configuration + * command to enable the first bearer is received and processed. */ spin_unlock_bh(&config_lock); |