netdev - Re: net-next/unix: BUG: using smp_processor

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Message-ID: <492A40CA.1070005@cosmosbay.com>
Date:	Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:51:06 +0100
From:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
CC:	ilpo.jarvinen@...sinki.fi, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: net-next/unix: BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible

David Miller a écrit :
> From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:20:14 -0800 (PST)
> 
>> From: Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>
>> Date: Sun, 23 Nov 2008 04:32:30 +0100
>>
>>> [PATCH] net: make sock_prot_inuse_add() preempt safe
>  ...
>> Eric, you added this bug by starting to use this interface in
>> situations where BH's were not disabled.
>>
>> Ever existing use adhered to that rule.
>>
>> If you therefore want to call this interface in new locations,
>> you have to make sure those locations follow the rule too.
> 
> Here is what I commited to fix this bug.
> 
> net: Make sure BHs are disabled in sock_prot_inuse_add()
> 
> The rule of calling sock_prot_inuse_add() is that BHs must
> be disabled.  Some new calls were added where this was not
> true and this tiggers warnings as reported by Ilpo.
> 
> Fix this by adding explicit BH disabling around those call sites.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
> ---
>  net/netlink/af_netlink.c |    3 +++
>  net/sctp/socket.c        |    4 ++++
>  net/unix/af_unix.c       |    2 ++
>  3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Hello David

Thanks for working on this during my sleep ;)


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