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To remove dependency on rtnl lock, always take neigh update encap lock when modifying neigh update hash table and list. Originally, this lock was only used to synchronize with netevent handler function, which is called from bh context and cannot use rtnl lock for synchronization. Take lock in encap entry attach function to prevent concurrent modifications of neigh update hash table and list. Taking the encap lock when creating new nhe introduces a problem that we need to allocate new entry with sleeping GFP_KERNEL flag while holding a spinlock. However, since previous patch in this series has already converted lookup in netevent handler function to user rcu read lock instead of encap lock, we can safely convert the lock type to mutex. Signed-off-by: Vlad Buslov <vladbu@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Jianbo Liu <jianbol@mellanox.com> Reviewed-by: Roi Dayan <roid@mellanox.com> Signed-off-by: Saeed Mahameed <saeedm@mellanox.com>
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