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Date:	Fri, 8 Dec 2006 08:06:57 +1100
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Alan <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	ak@...e.de, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...l.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [patch] net: dev_watchdog() locking fix

On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:55:22PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> fallout of the recent big networking merge i guess. Tested fix below. 
> David, Herbert, do you agree with it, or is it a false positive?

I agree that this is a bug, but the fix is in the wrong spot.  The
dev_watchdog function already runs in softirq context so it doesn't
need to disable BH.

You can almost be guaranteed that if netpoll is involved in a bug
then it should be fixed :)

In this case, it's taking the tx lock in process context which is
not allowed.  So it should disable BH before taking the tx lock.

Thanks,
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