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Subject: Re: [patch net-next v2 2/2] net: introduce
 netif_addr_lock_nested() and call if when appropriate
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From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 19:07:08 +0000

> On Mon, 2012-01-09 at 17:36 +0100, Jiri Pirko wrote:
>> dev_uc_sync() and dev_mc_sync() are acquiring netif_addr_lock for
>> destination device of synchronization. Since netif_addr_lock is already
>> held at the time for source device, this triggers depmod deathlock
>> warning.
> [...]
> 
> I think you mean '...lockdep deadlock warning'?

Applied with this wording fixed.