netdev - Re: [PATCH net] inet: frag: release spinlock before calling icmp

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Date:   Wed, 22 Mar 2017 15:41:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:     dvyukov@...gle.com, edumazet@...gle.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] inet: frag: release spinlock before calling
 icmp_send()

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2017 08:57:15 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> Dmitry reported a lockdep splat [1] (false positive) that we can fix
> by releasing the spinlock before calling icmp_send() from ip_expire()
> 
> This is a false positive because sending an ICMP message can not
> possibly re-enter the IP frag engine.
 ...
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.