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    act_ife: fix a potential deadlock · 5ffe57da
    Cong Wang authored
    use_all_metadata() acquires read_lock(&ife_mod_lock), then calls
    add_metainfo() which calls find_ife_oplist() which acquires the same
    lock again. Deadlock!
    
    Introduce __add_metainfo() which accepts struct tcf_meta_ops *ops
    as an additional parameter and let its callers to decide how
    to find it. For use_all_metadata(), it already has ops, no
    need to find it again, just call __add_metainfo() directly.
    
    And, as ife_mod_lock is only needed for find_ife_oplist(),
    this means we can make non-atomic allocation for populate_metalist()
    now.
    
    Fixes: 817e9f2c
    
     ("act_ife: acquire ife_mod_lock before reading ifeoplist")
    Cc: Jamal Hadi Salim <jhs@mojatatu.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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