Re: BUG: scheduling while atomic: ifconfig/0x00000002/4170

From: Johannes Berg
Date: Thu Sep 06 2007 - 08:43:45 EST


On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 20:36 +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Johannes Berg <johannes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Hah, I suspected as much but didn't have a chance to look yet. I had
> > plans to replace that sub_if_list with an RCU list and not require the
> > lock there, but that's far off. Any ideas how to fix this? We can't
> > reject the master stop so we have to walk the list, I guess we'll have
> > to audit the other list manipulation places, I think they're all under
> > RTNL.
>
> Yeah I think they're all under RTNL too. So you don't need to
> take the lock here at all since you should already have the RTNL.

I'll take a look at them and post appropriate patches.

johannes

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