netdev - Re: [net-next PATCH 3/3] net: frag queue per hash bucket locking

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Message-ID: <1364502164.15753.56.camel@edumazet-glaptop>
Date:	Thu, 28 Mar 2013 13:22:44 -0700
From:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
To:	Hannes Frederic Sowa <hannes@...essinduktion.org>
Cc:	Jesper Dangaard Brouer <brouer@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Florian Westphal <fw@...len.de>,
	Daniel Borkmann <dborkman@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [net-next PATCH 3/3] net: frag queue per hash bucket locking

On Thu, 2013-03-28 at 19:57 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote:

> I assume that it has to do with the usage of this code in
> ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c, which could be invoked from process
> context, if I read it correctly.

Then there would be a possible deadlock in current code.





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