Re: [PATCH][PPPOL2TP]: Fix SMP oops in pppol2tp driver

James Chapman
2008-02-11T23:42:17Z

Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:49:24PM +0100, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 10:19:35PM +0000, James Chapman wrote:
>> ...
>>> Below is example output from lockdep. The oops is reproducible when
>>> creating/deleting lots of sessions while passing data. The lock is being
>>> acquired for read and write in softirq contexts.
>
> ...Hmmm... And according to this, changing read_locks should be
> necessary too.

The patch changes both read and write locks.

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