Revert "genetlink: fix family dump race"
This reverts commit 58ad436fcf
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It turns out that the change introduced a potential deadlock
by causing a locking dependency with netlink's cb_mutex. I
can't seem to find a way to resolve this without doing major
changes to the locking, so revert this.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Acked-by: Pravin B Shelar <pshelar@nicira.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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@ -789,10 +789,6 @@ static int ctrl_dumpfamily(struct sk_buff *skb, struct netlink_callback *cb)
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struct net *net = sock_net(skb->sk);
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int chains_to_skip = cb->args[0];
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int fams_to_skip = cb->args[1];
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bool need_locking = chains_to_skip || fams_to_skip;
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if (need_locking)
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genl_lock();
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for (i = chains_to_skip; i < GENL_FAM_TAB_SIZE; i++) {
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n = 0;
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@ -814,9 +810,6 @@ errout:
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cb->args[0] = i;
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cb->args[1] = n;
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if (need_locking)
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genl_unlock();
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return skb->len;
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}
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