Re: request_module while holding rtnl semaphore

[Patrick McHardy <kaber@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thomas Graf wrote:

> * Patrick McHardy <41E34252.504@xxxxxxxxx> 2005-01-11 04:04
>
> > This patch got lost somehow. The act_api.c changes are actually
> > even more complicated because besides the action init path, changes
> > can also be made from classifiers in a deep call-chain. I hope
> > Thomas's recent changes make it easier to fix this, but I think
> > this patch should go in now anyway.
> The action initialization is now done first and no classifier
> data is changed except for tp->root modifications which must not
> be undone so you can safely return EBUSY. rsvp might be an exception,
> I haven't looked too closely into it yet.
>
> tcindex returns EBUSY when a filter is changed which does not fit
> into the hashtable, so this must be changed.
It's -EAGAIN, so no problem, nothing returns this currently. I'm going to
send a patch later.

Regards
Patrick