Is there any progress on subj issue? I see it was investigated here: https://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg361434.html
But it still exist on later kernels: [ 37.320301] ip/1047 is trying to acquire lock: [ 37.324764] (_xmit_ETHER/1){+.....}, at: [<c06ad228>] dev_mc_sync+0x4c/0x88 [ 37.331882] [ 37.331882] but task is already holding lock: [ 37.337738] (_xmit_ETHER/1){+.....}, at: [<c06ad228>] dev_mc_sync+0x4c/0x88 [ 37.344828] [ 37.344828] other info that might help us debug this: [ 37.351384] Possible unsafe locking scenario: [ 37.351384] [ 37.357326] CPU0 [ 37.359778] ---- [ 37.362230] lock(_xmit_ETHER/1); [ 37.365650] lock(_xmit_ETHER/1); [ 37.369069] [ 37.369069] *** DEADLOCK *** [ 37.369069] [ 37.375013] May be due to missing lock nesting notation [ 37.375013] [ 37.381830] 3 locks held by ip/1047: [ 37.385416] #0: (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<c06b8248>] rtnetlink_rcv+0x1c/0x38 [ 37.392860] #1: (&vlan_netdev_addr_lock_key/1){+.....}, at: [<c06a4f94>] dev_set_rx_mode+0x1c/0x30 [ 37.402046] #2: (_xmit_ETHER/1){+.....}, at: [<c06ad228>] dev_mc_sync+0x4c/0x88 [ 37.409574] [ 37.409574] stack backtrace: [ 37.413952] CPU: 0 PID: 1047 Comm: ip Not tainted 4.10.0maxdebug-00008-g9d55486 #22 [ 37.421639] Hardware name: Generic AM33XX (Flattened Device Tree) [ 37.427756] Backtrace: [ 37.430237] [<c010bf78>] (dump_backtrace) from [<c010c220>] (show_stack+0x18/0x1c) [ 37.437842] r7:c140f7ec r6:c13e29e0 r5:dc316780 r4:c0db8408 [ 37.443537] [<c010c208>] (show_stack) from [<c0402ab0>] (dump_stack+0x20/0x28) [ 37.450800] [<c0402a90>] (dump_stack) from [<c016b294>] (__lock_acquire+0x15d4/0x18ec) [ 37.458753] [<c0169cc0>] (__lock_acquire) from [<c016b958>] (lock_acquire+0x74/0x94) [ 37.466532] r10:dc2260c0 r9:dd747910 r8:00000000 r7:00000001 r6:00000001 r5:600d0013 [ 37.474393] r4:00000000 [ 37.476946] [<c016b8e4>] (lock_acquire) from [<c07f802c>] (_raw_spin_lock_nested+0x44/0x54) [ 37.485334] r7:00001002 r6:dd4fd988 r5:dc1f3000 r4:dd4fd988 [ 37.491022] [<c07f7fe8>] (_raw_spin_lock_nested) from [<c06ad228>] (dev_mc_sync+0x4c/0x88) [ 37.499320] r4:dd4fd800 [ 37.501870] [<c06ad1dc>] (dev_mc_sync) from [<c0796b60>] (dsa_slave_set_rx_mode+0x28/0x38) [ 37.510171] r7:00001002 r6:00000000 r5:dd4fd800 r4:dc1f3000 [ 37.515856] [<c0796b38>] (dsa_slave_set_rx_mode) from [<c06a4f40>] (__dev_set_rx_mode+0x64/0x9c) -- Best regards, Maxim Uvarov