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Re: [PATCH net] netlink: disable IRQs for netlink_lock_table()

From: patchwork-bot+netdevbpf@kernel.org
Date: 2021-05-17 22:40:19
Also in: linux-wireless

Hello:

This patch was applied to netdev/net.git (refs/heads/master):

On Mon, 17 May 2021 16:38:09 +0200 you wrote:
From: Johannes Berg <redacted>

Syzbot reports that in mac80211 we have a potential deadlock
between our "local->stop_queue_reasons_lock" (spinlock) and
netlink's nl_table_lock (rwlock). This is because there's at
least one situation in which we might try to send a netlink
message with this spinlock held while it is also possible to
take the spinlock from a hardirq context, resulting in the
following deadlock scenario reported by lockdep:

[...]
Here is the summary with links:
  - [net] netlink: disable IRQs for netlink_lock_table()
    https://git.kernel.org/netdev/net/c/1d482e666b8e

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