From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: netfilter 05/06: ctnetlink: sleepable allocation with spin lock bh Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:31:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <20080818.213153.238415631.davem@davemloft.net> References: <20080818165147.18978.92208.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20080818165154.18978.78109.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org To: kaber@trash.net Return-path: Received: from 74-93-104-97-Washington.hfc.comcastbusiness.net ([74.93.104.97]:39651 "EHLO sunset.davemloft.net" rhost-flags-OK-FAIL-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751609AbYHSEbx (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:31:53 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20080818165154.18978.78109.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> Sender: netfilter-devel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Patrick McHardy Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2008 18:51:55 +0200 (MEST) > netfilter: ctnetlink: sleepable allocation with spin lock bh > > This patch removes a GFP_KERNEL allocation while holding a spin lock with > bottom halves disabled in ctnetlink_change_helper(). > > This problem was introduced in 2.6.23 with the netfilter extension > infrastructure. > > Signed-off-by: Pablo Neira Ayuso > Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy Applied.