ipv6: addrconf: Avoid addrconf_disable_change() using RCU read-side lock
authorKefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Thu, 19 Jan 2017 08:26:21 +0000 (16:26 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 4 Feb 2017 08:45:09 +0000 (09:45 +0100)
commit8051bf2890e9778428495121a5ff77330a05324b
treec09d391c06108897a881e86245f32487de194c80
parent8a066a87025ea7bb727db28e4a273fe11ae34d35
ipv6: addrconf: Avoid addrconf_disable_change() using RCU read-side lock

[ Upstream commit 03e4deff4987f79c34112c5ba4eb195d4f9382b0 ]

Just like commit 4acd4945cd1e ("ipv6: addrconf: Avoid calling
netdevice notifiers with RCU read-side lock"), it is unnecessary
to make addrconf_disable_change() use RCU iteration over the
netdev list, since it already holds the RTNL lock, or we may meet
Illegal context switch in RCU read-side critical section.

Signed-off-by: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/ipv6/addrconf.c