netdev - Re: possible recursive locking in udp4_lib

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Date:	Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:50:17 -0400
From:	Hideo AOKI <haoki@...hat.com>
To:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
CC:	"Michael S. Tsirkin" <m.s.tsirkin@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: possible recursive locking in udp4_lib_rcv

Hello Herbert,

Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2008 at 10:37:41PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
>> Never mind, I see the reason why it's there.  What we should do
>> is drop the lock when we hit an encapsulated socket since they
>> don't need it at all.
> 
> Here is the patch:
> 
> udp: Drop socket lock for encapsulated packets

Thank very much for fixing the bug.

Best regards,
Hideo

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