netdev - Re: Kernel oops when clearing bgp neighbor info with TCP MD5SUM enabled

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Message-ID: <20091019153618.GA20967@redhat.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:36:18 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Anirban Sinha <ani@...rban.org>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, Anirban Sinha <asinha@...gmasystems.com>
Subject: Re: Kernel oops when clearing bgp neighbor info with TCP MD5SUM
	enabled

On 10/19, Anirban Sinha wrote:
>
> Once upon a time, like on 09-10-19 5:13 AM, Oleg Nesterov wrote:
>
> >> Is is
> >> it illegal to schedule a work function from within a timer callback?
> >
> > Yes sure.
>
> hmm. may be in that case, that function needs to be re-written.

OOPS!!!! I misread your question, didn't notice "il" above...

I meant: yes sure it _is legal_ to schedule a work from within a timer
callback (in fact it is legal from any context).

Sorry for confusion.

Oleg.

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