netdev - Re: Warning in net/ipv4/af

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Date:	Wed, 26 May 2010 21:21:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	anton@...ba.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Warning in net/ipv4/af_inet.c:154

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 06:18:46 +0200

> Process context :
> 
> lock only (sk_lock.slock = locked, sk_lock.owned = ???)
> 
> So I should add a test on owned. If set (by another thread), we should take the slow path.

Indeed, what you're doing now is broken.

If owned is non-zero when you take the spinlock you have to queue your
work, just like how we toss packets into the socket backlog, which is
processed by release_sock(), when this happens.
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