netdev - Re: [PATCH][PPPOL2TP]: Fix SMP oops in pppol2tp driver

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Date:	Mon, 3 Mar 2008 09:35:18 +0000
From:	Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...il.com>
To:	James Chapman <jchapman@...alix.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH][PPPOL2TP]: Fix SMP oops in pppol2tp driver

On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:22:04AM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
...
> Maybe it would be interesting to try (in a test only)
> with calling this with reorder_q.lock held (so without unlocking
> inside this pppol2tp_recv_dequeue's loop at all: at least to see
> possible lockdep report.

...But we can't forget to change this skb_unlink() in
pppol2tp_recv_dequeue_skb() then...

Jarek P.
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