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Commit c15b1cca authored by Hannes Frederic Sowa's avatar Hannes Frederic Sowa Committed by David S. Miller
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ipv6: move DAD and addrconf_verify processing to workqueue

addrconf_join_solict and addrconf_join_anycast may cause actions which
need rtnl locked, especially on first address creation.

A new DAD state is introduced which defers processing of the initial
DAD processing into a workqueue.

To get rtnl lock we need to push the code paths which depend on those
calls up to workqueues, specifically addrconf_verify and the DAD
processing.

(v2)
addrconf_dad_failure needs to be queued up to the workqueue, too. This
patch introduces a new DAD state and stop the DAD processing in the
workqueue (this is because of the possible ipv6_del_addr processing
which removes the solicited multicast address from the device).

addrconf_verify_lock is removed, too. After the transition it is not
needed any more.

As we are not processing in bottom half anymore we need to be a bit more
careful about disabling bottom half out when we lock spin_locks which are also
used in bh.

Relevant backtrace:
[  541.030090] RTNL: assertion fa...
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