Following are seven patches to fix locking problems,
silence locking-related warnings and resolve one recent regression
in the current 2.6.24-rc.
The first three patches are reposts, the rest are new.
patch 1: fix locking in sysfs primary/active selection
Call core network functions with expected locks to
eliminate potential deadlock and silence warnings.
patch 2: fix ASSERT_RTNL that produces spurious warnings
Relocate ASSERT_RTNL to remove a false warning; after patch,
ASSERT is located in code that holds only RTNL (additional locks were
causing the ASSERT to trip)
patch 3: fix locking during alb failover and slave removal
Fix all call paths into alb_fasten_mac_swap to hold only RTNL.
Eliminates potential deadlock and silences warnings.
patch 4: release slaves when master removed via sysfs
Insure that all slaves are removed when bond is destroyed via
sysfs.
patch 5: Fix up parameter parsing
Recent changes broke parameter parsing; this fixes things.
patch 6: Fix lock ordering for rtnl and bonding_rwsem
Resolves some lockdep warnings related to ordering between
rtnl and bonding_rwsem.
patch 7: Don't hold lock when calling rtnl_unlock
Since rtnl_unlock can sleep, don't hold any other locks when
calling it.
Patches are against the current netdev-2.6#upstream branch.
Please apply for 2.6.24.
-J
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-Jay Vosburgh, IBM Linux Technology Center, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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