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From: Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@math.u-psud.fr>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: possible recursive locking in ATM layer
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 12:23:33 +0200
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> ok this is a real potential deadlock in a way, it takes two locks of 2
> skbuffs without doing any kind of lock ordering; I think the following
> patch should fix it. Just sort the lock taking order by address of the
> skb.. it's not pretty but it's the best this can do in a minimally
> invasive way.

The patch is effective.  Thanks for making it!

Best wishes,

Duncan.