Re: [GIT] Networking

From: David Miller
Date: Tue Aug 17 2010 - 18:14:24 EST


From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:22:10 +0200

> [PATCH] netfilter: {ip,ip6,arp}_tables: avoid lockdep false positive
>
> After commit 24b36f019 (netfilter: {ip,ip6,arp}_tables: dont block
> bottom half more than necessary), lockdep can raise a warning
> because we attempt to lock a spinlock with BH enabled, while
> the same lock is usually locked by another cpu in a softirq context.
>
> Disable again BH to avoid these lockdep warnings.
>
> Reported-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Diagnosed-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>

Since Patrick seems to be busy, I'll merge this directly into
net-2.6, thanks everyone!
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