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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2013 09:56:32 -0700

> On Fri, 2013-10-04 at 00:14 -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
>> on x86 system with net.core.bpf_jit_enable = 1
> 
>> cannot reuse jited filter memory, since it's readonly,
>> so use original bpf insns memory to hold work_struct
>> 
>> defer kfree of sk_filter until jit completed freeing
>> 
>> tested on x86_64 and i386
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@plumgrid.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

I've decided to apply this to 'net', thanks.