Re: [GIT] Networking

David Miller
2010-08-16T20:56:50Z

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:22:10 +0200

> [PATCH] netfilter: {ip,ip6,arp}_tables: avoid lockdep false positive
>
> After commit 24b36f019 (netfilter: {ip,ip6,arp}_tables: dont block
> bottom half more than necessary), lockdep can raise a warning
> because we attempt to lock a spinlock with BH enabled, while
> the same lock is usually locked by another cpu in a softirq context.
>
> Disable again BH to avoid these lockdep warnings.
>
> Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
> Diagnosed-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
> CC: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
> CC: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>

Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>