netdev - Re: [PATCH] remove leftover rcu_read_unlock calls from __mkroute

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Date:	Fri, 08 Oct 2010 10:51:26 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	dm@...lsio.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] remove leftover rcu_read_unlock calls from
 __mkroute_output

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 06:47:58 +0200

> Le jeudi 07 octobre 2010 à 17:48 -0700, Dimitris Michailidis a écrit :
>> Commit "fib: RCU conversion of fib_lookup()" removed rcu_read_lock() from
>> __mkroute_output but left a couple of calls to rcu_read_unlock() in there.
>> This causes lockdep to complain that the rcu_read_unlock() call in
>> __ip_route_output_key causes a lock inbalance and quickly crashes the
>> kernel. The below fixes this for me.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Dimitris Michailidis <dm@...lsio.com>
> 
> Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>

Applied, thanks everyone.
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