Re: [2.5.69] rtnl-deadlock with usermodehelper and keventd

[Stian Jordet]

fre, 23.05.2003 kl. 11.43 skrev David S. Miller:
>    From: Martin Diehl <[e-mail]>
>    Date: Fri, 23 May 2003 11:38:38 +0200 (CEST)
> 
>    On Thu, 22 May 2003, David S. Miller wrote:
>    
>    >    Asking just because there was another user hitting this deadlock:
>    > 
>    > It's fixed in current 2.5.x sources, wake up :-)
>    
>    Oops, sorry for the noise, I hadn't noticed this yet.
>    
>    But nope, unfortunately it's still hanging! I've just tested with 
>    2.5.69-bk15. Running into the same deadlock due to sleeping with rtnl 
>    hold. This time however it seems it's triggered from sysfs side!
> 
> Stephen, you need to do the device class stuff outside of the RTNL
> lock please.
> 
> At least I didn't add this bug :-)
> 
> This should fix it.

And so it did :-) Thanks.

Best regards,
Stian