Re: net: possible deadlock in skb_queue_tail

From: Cong Wang
Date: Mon Feb 20 2017 - 17:52:16 EST


On Mon, Feb 20, 2017 at 5:29 AM, Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> other info that might help us debug this:
>
> Possible unsafe locking scenario:
>
> CPU0 CPU1
> ---- ----
> lock(&(&pcpu->lock)->rlock);
> lock(&(&list->lock)->rlock#3);
> lock(&(&pcpu->lock)->rlock);
> lock(&(&list->lock)->rlock#3);
>

They are different types of sockets and different lists of skb's,
one is netlink socket the other is udp socket, so I don't think
we could have a deadlock in this scenario, we probably need to
explicitly mark them as different lockdep classes.