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From: Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@math.u-psud.fr>
To: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Subject: Re: possible recursive locking in ATM layer
Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2006 12:23:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200607051223.34339.duncan.sands@math.u-psud.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1152029582.3109.70.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org>

> 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.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-07-05 10:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-07-04 15:59 possible recursive locking in ATM layer Duncan Sands
2006-07-04 16:13 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-07-05 10:23   ` Duncan Sands [this message]
2006-07-05 13:33   ` Avi Kivity
2006-07-05 13:42     ` Arjan van de Ven

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