netdev - Re: [PATCH] NFC: llcp: fix nfc_llcp_send_ui

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Date:   Tue, 26 Jun 2018 16:00:33 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>
Cc:     Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Samuel Ortiz <sameo@...ux.intel.com>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Petr Mladek <pmladek@...e.com>,
        syzkaller-bugs <syzkaller-bugs@...glegroups.com>,
        linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        syzbot <syzbot+d29d18215e477cfbfbdd@...kaller.appspotmail.com>,
        Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] NFC: llcp: fix nfc_llcp_send_ui_frame() lockup

On (06/25/18 23:44), Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > The loop is still infinite, correct, but we have a preemption point now.
> > Sure, net people can come with a much better solution, I'll be happy to
> > scratch my patch.
> > 
> 
> This can not be the right solution, think about current thread being real time,
> cond_resched() might be a nop.
> NFC maintainers should really take a look at this.

I'm all for it.

	-ss