netdev - Re: [PATCH net v2] openvswitch: fix a possible deadlock and lockdep warning

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Date:	Fri, 28 Mar 2014 16:42:42 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	fbl@...hat.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, dev@...nvswitch.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net v2] openvswitch: fix a possible deadlock and
 lockdep warning

From: Flavio Leitner <fbl@...hat.com>
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:05:34 -0300

> There are two problematic situations.
> 
> A deadlock can happen when is_percpu is false because it can get
> interrupted while holding the spinlock. Then it executes
> ovs_flow_stats_update() in softirq context which tries to get
> the same lock.
> 
> The second sitation is that when is_percpu is true, the code
> correctly disables BH but only for the local CPU, so the
> following can happen when locking the remote CPU without
> disabling BH:
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Flavio Leitner <fbl@...hat.com>
> ---
>  v2: better commit message

Ok, I just saw Jesse's request that I apply this directly, so I
have done so.

Thanks.
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