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    genetlink: fix netns vs. netlink table locking · d136f1bd
    Johannes Berg authored
    Since my commits introducing netns awareness into
    genetlink we can get this problem:
    
    BUG: scheduling while atomic: modprobe/1178/0x00000002
    2 locks held by modprobe/1178:
     #0:  (genl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8135ee1a>] genl_register_mc_grou
     #1
    
    :  (rcu_read_lock){.+.+..}, at: [<ffffffff8135eeb5>] genl_register_mc_g
    Pid: 1178, comm: modprobe Not tainted 2.6.31-rc8-wl-34789-g95cb731-dirty #
    Call Trace:
     [<ffffffff8103e285>] __schedule_bug+0x85/0x90
     [<ffffffff81403138>] schedule+0x108/0x588
     [<ffffffff8135b131>] netlink_table_grab+0xa1/0xf0
     [<ffffffff8135c3a7>] netlink_change_ngroups+0x47/0x100
     [<ffffffff8135ef0f>] genl_register_mc_group+0x12f/0x290
    
    because I overlooked that netlink_table_grab() will
    schedule, thinking it was just the rwlock. However,
    in the contention case, that isn't actually true.
    
    Fix this by letting the code grab the netlink table
    lock first and then the RCU for netns protection.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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