Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 18 Jun 2006 19:53:06 +0100 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] [patch 2/6] [Network namespace] Network device sharing by view |
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On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 11:02:04PM +0200, dlezcano@fr.ibm.com wrote:
> + read_lock(&dev_base_lock); > + > + for (dev = dev_base; dev; dev = dev->next) > + if (!strncmp(dev->name, devname, IFNAMSIZ)) > + break; > + > + if (!dev) { > + ret = -ENODEV; > + goto out; > + } > + > + db = kmalloc(sizeof(*db), GFP_KERNEL);
deadlock.
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