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Commit 58a89eca authored by Guillaume Nault's avatar Guillaume Nault Committed by David S. Miller
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ppp: fix lockdep splat in ppp_dev_uninit()

ppp_dev_uninit() locks all_ppp_mutex while under rtnl mutex protection.
ppp_create_interface() must then lock these mutexes in that same order
to avoid possible deadlock.

[  120.880011] ======================================================
[  120.880011] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
[  120.880011] 4.2.0 #1 Not tainted
[  120.880011] -------------------------------------------------------
[  120.880011] ppp-apitest/15827 is trying to acquire lock:
[  120.880011]  (&pn->all_ppp_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa0145f56>] ppp_dev_uninit+0x64/0xb0 [ppp_generic]
[  120.880011]
[  120.880011] but task is already holding lock:
[  120.880011]  (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff812e4255>] rtnl_lock+0x12/0x14
[  120.880011]
[  120.880011] which lock already depends on the new lock.
[  120.880011]
[  120.880011]
[  120.880011] the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is:
[  120.880011]
[  120.880011] -> #1 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}:
[  120.880...
parent 21343ac2
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