Re: Possible deadlock in ipv6?

[Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2012-06-06 at 18:49 +0400, Vladimir Davydov wrote:
> I'm not familiar with the linux net subsystem, so I would appreciate if 
> someone could clarify if the following call chain is possible:
> 
> addrconf_ifdown() calls neigh_ifdown(nd_tbl) which locks nd_tbl.lock for 
> writing and calls
> 
>      pneigh_ifdown
>      pndisc_destructor
>      ipv6_dev_mc_dec
>      __ipv6_dev_mc_dec
>      igmp6_group_dropped
>      igmp6_leave_group
>      igmp6_send
>      icmp6_dst_alloc
>      ip6_neigh_lookup
>      neigh_create
> 
> and neigh_create() locks nd_tbl.lock for writing again resulting in a 
> deadlock.

It seems a deadlock is possible indeed, good catch !



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