When the HW deletes an entry in MAC table then it generates an interrupt. The SW will go through it's own list of MAC entries and if it is not found then it would notify the listeners about this. The problem is that when the SW will go through it's own list it would take a spin lock(lan966x->mac_lock) and when it notifies that the entry is deleted. But to notify the listeners it taking the rtnl_lock which is illegal. This is fixed by instead of notifying right away that the entry is deleted, move the entry on a temp list and once, it checks all the entries then just notify that the entries from temp list are deleted. Fixes: 5ccd66e01cbe ("net: lan966x: add support for interrupts from analyzer") Signed-off-by: Horatiu Vultur <horatiu.vultur@microchip.com> Reviewed-by: Vladimir Oltean <vladimir.oltean@nxp.com> Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
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