When entering softif_create(), the rtnl lock has already been acquired by store_mesh_iface(). (store_mesh_iface() -> hardif_enable_interface() -> softif_create)

In case of an error, we should therefore call unregister_netdevice() instead of unregister_netdev().

unregister_netdev() tries to acquire the rtnl lock itself and deadlocks in this situation. unregister_netdevice() assumes that the rtnl lock is already been held.

Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich siwu@hrz.tu-chemnitz.de --- soft-interface.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/soft-interface.c b/soft-interface.c index 45297c8..987c75a 100644 --- a/soft-interface.c +++ b/soft-interface.c @@ -874,7 +874,7 @@ unreg_debugfs: unreg_sysfs: sysfs_del_meshif(soft_iface); unreg_soft_iface: - unregister_netdev(soft_iface); + unregister_netdevice(soft_iface); return NULL;

free_soft_iface: