netdev - Re: [PATCH net] sctp: fix BH handling on socket backlog

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Date:	Mon, 25 Jul 2016 11:22:53 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	marcelo.leitner@...il.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, eric.dumazet@...il.com,
	vyasevich@...il.com, nhorman@...driver.com,
	linux-sctp@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] sctp: fix BH handling on socket backlog

From: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>
Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2016 00:32:48 -0300

> Now that the backlog processing is called with BH enabled, we have to
> disable BH before taking the socket lock via bh_lock_sock() otherwise
> it may dead lock:
 ...
> Fixes: 860fbbc343bf ("sctp: prepare for socket backlog behavior change")
> Cc: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Ricardo Leitner <marcelo.leitner@...il.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.