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Subject: Re: [PATCH net-2.6] net: restore the original spinlock to protect
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From: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 2009 13:06:12 +0200

> There is a path when an assetion in dev_unicast_sync() appears. 
> 
> igmp6_group_added -> dev_mc_add -> __dev_set_rx_mode ->
> -> vlan_dev_set_rx_mode -> dev_unicast_sync
> 
> Therefore we cannot protect this list with rtnl. This patch restores the
> original protecting this list with spinlock.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Pirko <jpirko@redhat.com>

Applied, thanks.