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    net: remove type_check from dev_get_nest_level() · 952fcfd0
    Sabrina Dubroca authored
    
    
    The idea for type_check in dev_get_nest_level() was to count the number
    of nested devices of the same type (currently, only macvlan or vlan
    devices).
    This prevented the false positive lockdep warning on configurations such
    as:
    
    eth0 <--- macvlan0 <--- vlan0 <--- macvlan1
    
    However, this doesn't prevent a warning on a configuration such as:
    
    eth0 <--- macvlan0 <--- vlan0
    eth1 <--- vlan1 <--- macvlan1
    
    In this case, all the locks end up with a nesting subclass of 1, so
    lockdep thinks that there is still a deadlock:
    
    - in the first case we have (macvlan_netdev_addr_lock_key, 1) and then
      take (vlan_netdev_xmit_lock_key, 1)
    - in the second case, we have (vlan_netdev_xmit_lock_key, 1) and then
      take (macvlan_netdev_addr_lock_key, 1)
    
    By removing the linktype check in dev_get_nest_level() and always
    incrementing the nesting depth, lockdep considers this configuration
    valid.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSabrina Dubroca <sd@queasysnail.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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