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Date: Sun, 23 Oct 2016 17:34:12 -0400 (EDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: avagin@...nvz.org Cc: ebiederm@...ssion.com, containers@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] net: allow to kill a task which waits net_mutex in copy_new_ns From: Andrei Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org> Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2016 19:45:43 -0700 > From: Andrey Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org> > > net_mutex can be locked for a long time. It may be because many > namespaces are being destroyed or many processes decide to create > a network namespace. > > Both these operations are heavy, so it is better to have an ability to > kill a process which is waiting net_mutex. > > Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net> > Cc: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com> > Signed-off-by: Andrei Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org> Applied, thanks.
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