netdev - Re: [PATCH] sctp: lock_sock_nested in sctp_sock

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jun 2007 13:24:00 -0700
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@...com>
CC:	Zach Brown <zach.brown@...cle.com>,
	lksctp-developers@...ts.sourceforge.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sctp: lock_sock_nested in sctp_sock_migrate

Vlad Yasevich wrote:
> Hm... This is another case of of two different sockets taking the same lock...
> 
> Arjan,  did this every get fixed, or is the nested locking the right solution
> to this?
> 

for this specific case it's ok and the nested solution is right.
In the general case it's obviously not safe to take the locks of two 
sockets in "unspecified" order....
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