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There is a deadlock possible when canceling the link status
delayed work queue. The removal process is run with RTNL held,
and the link status callback is acquring RTNL.
Resolve the issue by using trylock and rescheduling.
If cancel is in process, that block it from happening.
Fixes:
122a5f6410f4 ("staging: hv: use delayed_work for netvsc_send_garp()")
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <sthemmin@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
bool notify = false, reschedule = false;
unsigned long flags, next_reconfig, delay;
- rtnl_lock();
+ /* if changes are happening, comeback later */
+ if (!rtnl_trylock()) {
+ schedule_delayed_work(&ndev_ctx->dwork, LINKCHANGE_INT);
+ return;
+ }
+
if (ndev_ctx->start_remove)
goto out_unlock;