From 9d47b380563174e5c15776ce6ca9bab4ee7d59e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Johannes Berg Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2013 16:08:02 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- net/netlink/genetlink.c | 7 ------- 1 file changed, 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/netlink/genetlink.c b/net/netlink/genetlink.c index f85f8a2..512718a 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; } -- 2.7.4