From: "Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2014 03:43:55 +0530 > Subsystems that want to register CPU hotplug callbacks, as well as perform > initialization for the CPUs that are already online, often do it as shown > below: ... > This is wrong, since it is prone to ABBA deadlocks involving the > cpu_add_remove_lock and the cpu_hotplug.lock (when running concurrently > with CPU hotplug operations). > > Instead, the correct and race-free way of performing the callback > registration is: ... > Fix the code in net/iucv/iucv.c by using this latter form of callback > registration. Also, provide helper functions to perform the common memory > allocations and frees, to condense repetitive code. > > Cc: Ursula Braun <ursula.braun@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: linux-s390@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Cc: netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
