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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Regression in 3.8-rc1:  "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context"
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 13:04:29 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50D6043D.9010600@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20121222183044.GA10263@liondog.tnic>

On 12/22/2012 12:30 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 10:10:28AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> RTNL is a mutex, its perfectly valid to use GFP_KERNEL while holding a
>> mutex.
>
> Right, sorry. The check fires because we have preemption disabled.
>
>> As replied before your mail, fix for the problem is already in David
>> tree.
>
> Yep, saw that after hitting send.

Eric and Borislav,

The patch does fix my problem. I expect that it will be in mainline by -rc2.

Thanks,

Larry



  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-22 19:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-22 17:11 Larry Finger
2012-12-22 17:57 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-12-22 18:02 ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-22 18:10   ` Eric Dumazet
2012-12-22 18:30     ` Borislav Petkov
2012-12-22 19:04       ` Larry Finger [this message]
2012-12-22 21:34   ` David Miller

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