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[ Upstream commit 30db406923b9285a9bac06a6af5e74bd6d0f1d06 ] masq_inet6_event is called asynchronously from system work queue, because the inet6 notifier is atomic and nf_iterate_cleanup can sleep. The ipv4 and device notifiers call nf_iterate_cleanup directly. This is legal, but these notifiers are called with RTNL mutex held. A large conntrack table with many devices coming and going will have severe impact on the system usability, with 'ip a' blocking for several seconds. This change places the defer code into a helper and makes it more generic so ipv4 and ifdown notifiers can be converted to defer the cleanup walk as well in a follow patch. Signed-off-by: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de> Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.