From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
To: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Regression in 3.8-rc1: "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context"
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 19:30:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20121222183044.GA10263@liondog.tnic> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1356199828.21834.8500.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 10:10:28AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> RTNL is a mutex, its perfectly valid to use GFP_KERNEL while holding a
> mutex.
Right, sorry. The check fires because we have preemption disabled.
> As replied before your mail, fix for the problem is already in David
> tree.
Yep, saw that after hitting send.
--
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.
Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-22 18:30 UTC|newest]
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2012-12-22 18:02 ` Regression in 3.8-rc1: "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context" Borislav Petkov
2012-12-22 18:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2012-12-22 18:30 ` Borislav Petkov [this message]
2012-12-22 19:04 ` Larry Finger
2012-12-22 21:34 ` David Miller
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