If nf_conncount_init fails currently the dispatched work is not canceled, causing problems when the timer fires. This change fixes this by not scheduling the work until all initialization is successful.
Fixes: a65878d6f00b ("net: openvswitch: fixes potential deadlock in dp cleanup code") Reported-by: kernel test robot <l...@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Eelco Chaudron <echau...@redhat.com> --- net/openvswitch/datapath.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c index 6e47ef7ef036..78941822119f 100644 --- a/net/openvswitch/datapath.c +++ b/net/openvswitch/datapath.c @@ -2476,13 +2476,19 @@ static int __init dp_register_genl(void) static int __net_init ovs_init_net(struct net *net) { struct ovs_net *ovs_net = net_generic(net, ovs_net_id); + int err; INIT_LIST_HEAD(&ovs_net->dps); INIT_WORK(&ovs_net->dp_notify_work, ovs_dp_notify_wq); INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&ovs_net->masks_rebalance, ovs_dp_masks_rebalance); + + err = ovs_ct_init(net); + if (err) + return err; + schedule_delayed_work(&ovs_net->masks_rebalance, msecs_to_jiffies(DP_MASKS_REBALANCE_INTERVAL)); - return ovs_ct_init(net); + return 0; } static void __net_exit list_vports_from_net(struct net *net, struct net *dnet,