linux-kernel - Re: possible recursive locking in udp4_lib

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Date:	Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:36:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	haoki@...hat.com
Cc:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, m.s.tsirkin@...il.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, yoshfuji@...ux-ipv6.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: possible recursive locking in udp4_lib_rcv

From: Hideo AOKI <haoki@...hat.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Aug 2008 23:50:17 -0400

> 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.

Indeed, thanks Herbert.

Applied to net-2.6, and queued up for -stable.
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