netdev - Re: ipx: fix locking regression in ipx_sendmsg and ipx

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Message-Id: <20141118.154944.459070848595088193.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 18 Nov 2014 15:49:44 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	arnd@...db.de
Cc:	jbohac@...e.cz, acme@...stprotocols.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ipx: fix locking regression in ipx_sendmsg and ipx_recvmsg

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2014 14:37:26 +0100

> Does ipxrtr_route_packet() actually sleep while waiting for the network,
> or is it possible that you only need to change the recvmsg path?

I went over that code path and it doesn't appear to sleep at all.
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