netdev - Re: [PATCH] ipv4: fix possible seqlock deadlock

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Date:	Thu, 14 Nov 2013 17:32:47 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	davej@...hat.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ipv4: fix possible seqlock deadlock

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 13:37:54 -0800

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> ip4_datagram_connect() being called from process context,
> it should use IP_INC_STATS() instead of IP_INC_STATS_BH()
> otherwise we can deadlock on 32bit arches, or get corruptions of
> SNMP counters.
> 
> Fixes: 584bdf8cbdf6 ("[IPV4]: Fix "ipOutNoRoutes" counter error for TCP and UDP")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks!
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