From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 3 Aug 2008 11:29:26 +0200

quoted text
> After some re-checking one more question: why do you think this
> qdisc_root_lock() is safe as sch_tree_lock() (or anywhere else)? It
> seems, eg. during deactivation it can get root_lock of qdisc_default,
> and proceed with another qdisc?

We hold RTNL at the time.

If it's the default qdisc, that's fine, we'll reset it and free
up the packets when the RCU handler of the qdisc_destroy() runs.

That's a case where locking the wrong qdisc is OK.
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