netdev - Re: Regression in 3.8-rc1: "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context"

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Date:	Sat, 22 Dec 2012 19:30:44 +0100
From:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Regression in 3.8-rc1:  "BUG: sleeping function called from
 invalid context"

On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 10:10:28AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> RTNL is a mutex, its perfectly valid to use GFP_KERNEL while holding a
> mutex.

Right, sorry. The check fires because we have preemption disabled.

> As replied before your mail, fix for the problem is already in David
> tree.

Yep, saw that after hitting send.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine.
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