On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 02:57:34PM +0300, Julian Anastasov wrote:
> When the sync damon is started we need to hold rtnl
> lock while calling ip_mc_join_group. Currently, we have
> a wrong locking order because the correct one is
> rtnl_lock->__ip_vs_mutex. It is implied from the usage
> of __ip_vs_mutex in ip_vs_dst_event() which is called
> under rtnl lock during NETDEV_* notifications.
>
> Fix the problem by calling rtnl_lock early only for the
> start_sync_thread call. As a bonus this fixes the usage
> __dev_get_by_name which was not called under rtnl lock.
>
> This patch actually extends and depends on commit 54ff9ef36bdf
> ("ipv4, ipv6: kill ip_mc_{join, leave}_group and
> ipv6_sock_mc_{join, drop}").
>
> Signed-off-by: Julian Anastasov <ja@xxxxxx>
Thanks, I have queued this up.
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