netdev - Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: two more missing bh disable

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Message-Id: <20160505.002549.868922626404541926.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Thu, 05 May 2016 00:25:49 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	eric.dumazet@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] tcp: two more missing bh disable

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Date: Wed, 04 May 2016 15:27:29 -0700

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
> 
> percpu_counter only have protection against preemption.
> 
> TCP stack uses them possibly from BH, so we need BH protection
> in contexts that could be run in process context
> 
> Fixes: c10d9310edf5 ("tcp: do not assume TCP code is non preemptible")
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Applied.