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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:22:44 -0700
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On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 19:57 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:

> I assume that it has to do with the usage of this code in
> ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c, which could be invoked from process
> context, if I read it correctly.

Then there would be a possible deadlock in current code.