The wireless sysfs methods like the rest of the networking sysfs
methods are removed with the rtnl_lock held and block until
the existing methods stop executing. So use rtnl_trylock
and restart_syscall so that the code continues to work.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <redacted>
---
net/core/net-sysfs.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/core/net-sysfs.c b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
index fbc1c74..099c753 100644
--- a/net/core/net-sysfs.c
+++ b/net/core/net-sysfs.c
@@ -410,7 +410,8 @@ static ssize_t wireless_show(struct device *d, char *buf,
const struct iw_statistics *iw;
ssize_t ret = -EINVAL;
- rtnl_lock();
+ if (!rtnl_trylock())
+ return restart_syscall();
if (dev_isalive(dev)) {
iw = get_wireless_stats(dev);
if (iw)--
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