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Message-Id: <20130514.130307.629850895919092156.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 14 May 2013 13:03:07 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	denys@...p.net.lb, amwang@...hat.com, david.ward@...mit.edu,
	hayeswang@...ltek.com, romieu@...zoreil.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/802/mrp: fix lockdep splat

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2013 12:40:01 -0700

> On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 12:21 -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
>> On Tue, 2013-05-14 at 12:07 -0700, David Miller wrote:
>> 
>> > Can you double check that you really had Eric's patch applied?
>> > lockdep appears to be complaining about the same thing in your
>> > log dump, as if the patch was not really applied.
>> > 
>> > It's saying that app->lock can be taken from the join timer in
>> > softirq, but mrp_uninit_applicant() takes it without disabling
>> > softirqs.
>> > 
>> > Eric's patch explicitly fixes this, by making sure that spin_lock_bh()
>> > is used there.
>> 
>> I am going to test this myself, it seems quite simple.
>> I'll add a Tested-by: tag once done.
> 
> I definitely could trigger the bug easily without my patch :
 ...
> And with the patch, there is no lockdep splat anymore.
> 
> Tested-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied, thanks Eric.
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