netdev - Re: sleeping in irq context in match()

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Message-ID: <20080723191443.GT10471@solarflare.com>
Date:	Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:14:44 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Cc:	Alex Davis <alex14641@...oo.com>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sleeping in irq context in match()

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> the backtrace below is popping up in kerneloops.org stats pretty
> quickly; I don't know if it's been discussed here before but
> just wanted to mention it in case it hasn't been..
> (it's rank 13 right now, out of nowhere)
> 
> http://www.kerneloops.org/searchweek.php?search=match  for more info
> 
> 
> __might_sleep
> mutex_lock_nested
> rtnl_lock
> *match
[...]

Looking at the "more info", I see that that function is in xt_ipisforif,
which is an out-of-tree module.  The author appears to be
Alex Davis <alex14641@...oo.com>.

Ben.

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