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From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Subject: Re: Regression in 3.8-rc1:  "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid
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Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2012 13:04:29 -0600
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On 12/22/2012 12:30 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> 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.

Eric and Borislav,

The patch does fix my problem. I expect that it will be in mainline by -rc2.

Thanks,

Larry