netpoll: fix a rtnl lock assertion failure
authorCong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Mon, 14 Jan 2013 23:34:06 +0000 (23:34 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Wed, 16 Jan 2013 20:26:03 +0000 (15:26 -0500)
commitf92d318023ff70a273690a91568597168ac32f05
tree91d64d43a5111cfbc689956e27017c144c9205ba
parent7db11f7596e0e54f982b1897f8233056e5c67a7d
netpoll: fix a rtnl lock assertion failure

v4: hold rtnl lock for the whole netpoll_setup()
v3: remove the comment
v2: use RCU read lock

This patch fixes the following warning:

[   72.013864] RTNL: assertion failed at net/core/dev.c (4955)
[   72.017758] Pid: 668, comm: netpoll-prep-v6 Not tainted 3.8.0-rc1+ #474
[   72.019582] Call Trace:
[   72.020295]  [<ffffffff8176653d>] netdev_master_upper_dev_get+0x35/0x58
[   72.022545]  [<ffffffff81784edd>] netpoll_setup+0x61/0x340
[   72.024846]  [<ffffffff815d837e>] store_enabled+0x82/0xc3
[   72.027466]  [<ffffffff815d7e51>] netconsole_target_attr_store+0x35/0x37
[   72.029348]  [<ffffffff811c3479>] configfs_write_file+0xe2/0x10c
[   72.030959]  [<ffffffff8115d239>] vfs_write+0xaf/0xf6
[   72.032359]  [<ffffffff81978a05>] ? sysret_check+0x22/0x5d
[   72.033824]  [<ffffffff8115d453>] sys_write+0x5c/0x84
[   72.035328]  [<ffffffff819789d9>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

In case of other races, hold rtnl lock for the entire netpoll_setup() function.

Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Pirko <jiri@resnulli.us>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <amwang@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
net/core/netpoll.c