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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jslaby@suse.cz
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	jirislaby@gmail.com, chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] ATM: iphase, remove sleep-inside-atomic
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:13:13 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101011.111313.59678995.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1286789218-13976-2-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz>

From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2010 11:26:57 +0200

> Stanse found that ia_init_one locks a spinlock and inside of that it
> calls ia_start which calls:
> * request_irq
> * tx_init which does kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL)
> 
> Both of them can thus sleep and result in a deadlock. I don't see a
> reason to have a per-device spinlock there which is used only there
> and inited right before the lock location. So remove it completely.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>

Applied.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-10-11 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-11  9:26 [PATCH 1/3] NET: pch, fix use after free Jiri Slaby
2010-10-11  9:26 ` [PATCH 2/3] ATM: iphase, remove sleep-inside-atomic Jiri Slaby
2010-10-11 18:13   ` David Miller [this message]
2010-10-11  9:26 ` [PATCH 3/3] NET: wimax, fix use after free Jiri Slaby
2010-10-11 16:46   ` Inaky Perez-Gonzalez
2010-10-11 18:12     ` David Miller
2010-10-11  9:38 ` [PATCH 1/3] NET: pch, " Eric Dumazet
2010-10-11 18:13   ` David Miller

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