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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-01-08 12:12:30 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2021-01-08 12:12:30 -0800
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Merge tag 'net-5.11-rc3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net
Pull more networking fixes from Jakub Kicinski: "Slightly lighter pull request to get back into the Thursday cadence. Current release - always broken: - can: mcp251xfd: fix Tx/Rx ring buffer driver race conditions - dsa: hellcreek: fix led_classdev build errors Previous releases - regressions: - ipv6: fib: flush exceptions when purging route to avoid netdev reference leak - ip_tunnels: fix pmtu check in nopmtudisc mode - ip: always refragment ip defragmented packets to avoid MTU issues when forwarding through tunnels, correct "packet too big" message is prohibitively tricky to generate - s390/qeth: fix locking for discipline setup / removal and during recovery to prevent both deadlocks and races - mlx5: Use port_num 1 instead of 0 when delete a RoCE address Previous releases - always broken: - cdc_ncm: correct overhead calculation in delayed_ndp_size to prevent out of bound accesses with Huawei 909s-120 LTE module - fix stmmac dwmac-sun8i suspend/resume: - PHY being left powered off - MAC syscon configuration being reset - reference to the reset controller being improperly dropped - qrtr: fix null-ptr-deref in qrtr_ns_remove - can: tcan4x5x: fix bittiming const, use common bittiming from m_can driver - mlx5e: CT: Use per flow counter when CT flow accounting is enabled - mlx5e: Fix SWP offsets when vlan inserted by driver Misc: - bpf: Fix a task_iter bug caused by a bpf -> net merge conflict resolution And the usual many fixes to various error paths" * tag 'net-5.11-rc3-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/netdev/net: (69 commits) net: dsa: lantiq_gswip: Exclude RMII from modes that report 1 GbE s390/qeth: fix L2 header access in qeth_l3_osa_features_check() s390/qeth: fix locking for discipline setup / removal s390/qeth: fix deadlock during recovery selftests: fib_nexthops: Fix wrong mausezahn invocation nexthop: Bounce NHA_GATEWAY in FDB nexthop groups nexthop: Unlink nexthop group entry in error path nexthop: Fix off-by-one error in error path octeontx2-af: fix memory leak of lmac and lmac->name chtls: Fix chtls resources release sequence chtls: Added a check to avoid NULL pointer dereference chtls: Replace skb_dequeue with skb_peek chtls: Avoid unnecessary freeing of oreq pointer chtls: Fix panic when route to peer not configured chtls: Remove invalid set_tcb call chtls: Fix hardware tid leak net: ip: always refragment ip defragmented packets net: fix pmtu check in nopmtudisc mode selftests: netfilter: add selftest for ipip pmtu discovery with enabled connection tracking docs: octeontx2: tune rst markup ...
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@@ -64,8 +64,8 @@ ndo_do_ioctl:
Context: process
ndo_get_stats:
- Synchronization: dev_base_lock rwlock.
- Context: nominally process, but don't sleep inside an rwlock
+ Synchronization: rtnl_lock() semaphore, dev_base_lock rwlock, or RCU.
+ Context: atomic (can't sleep under rwlock or RCU)
ndo_start_xmit:
Synchronization: __netif_tx_lock spinlock.