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From: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Subject: Re: Regression in 3.8-rc1:  "BUG: sleeping function called from
 invalid context"
Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 19:30:44 +0100
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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.

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    Boris.

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