netdev - Re: [PATCH] net/802/mrp: fix lockdep splat

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Message-ID: <5193B908.4030407@ll.mit.edu>
Date:	Wed, 15 May 2013 12:34:16 -0400
From:	"Ward, David - 0663 - MITLL" <david.ward@...mit.edu>
To:	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
CC:	Denys Fedoryshchenko <denys@...p.net.lb>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	"amwang@...hat.com" <amwang@...hat.com>,
	"hayeswang@...ltek.com" <hayeswang@...ltek.com>,
	"romieu@...zoreil.com" <romieu@...zoreil.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net/802/mrp: fix lockdep splat

On 05/15/2013 11:22 AM, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> Re: [PATCH] net/802/mrp: fix lockdep splat
>
> On Wed, 2013-05-15 at 17:50 +0300, Denys Fedoryshchenko wrote:
> > On 2013-05-14 22:40, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > >
> > > 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>
> >
> > Yes, it seems after depclean i cannot reproduce anymore this bug. My
> > bad, seems i should recompile kernel completely next time.
> >
>
> Thanks for testing again, I was quite mystified by your original
> results ;)
>

FYI - I believe GARP (net/802/garp.c) needs the same fix.  Thechange 
that introduced this issue was originally copied from there.

David


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