netlink: Call cb->done from a worker thread

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The cb->done interface expects to be called in process context.
This was broken by the netlink RCU conversion.  This patch fixes
it by adding a worker struct to make the cb->done call where
necessary.

Fixes: 21e4902aea ("netlink: Lockless lookup with RCU grace...")
Reported-by: Subash Abhinov Kasiviswanathan <subashab@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Acked-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Herbert Xu 2016-11-28 19:22:12 +08:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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