netdev - Re: [Patch net] net_sched: move tcf_lock down after gen_replace

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Date:   Wed, 14 Jun 2017 14:42:17 -0400 (EDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     yuval.shaia@...cle.com
Cc:     xiyou.wangcong@...il.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        nicholashuber@...il.com, labbott@...hat.com, jhs@...atatu.com
Subject: Re: [Patch net] net_sched: move tcf_lock down after
 gen_replace_estimator()

From: Yuval Shaia <yuval.shaia@...cle.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2017 23:40:41 +0300

> On Tue, Jun 13, 2017 at 01:36:24PM -0700, Cong Wang wrote:
>> Laura reported a sleep-in-atomic kernel warning inside
> 
> Since you added a Reported-by tag below i don't see a reason to
> specifically mention it in commit log message.

That doesn't make any sense at all.

Part of telling the story is saying that someone reported a specific
kind of issue, and here is the problem, and here is how we solved it.

Just because there's a reported-by tag doesn't mean it's superfluous.