Re: Regression in 3.8-rc1: "BUG: sleeping function called from invalidcontext"

[Larry Finger]

On 12/22/2012 12:30 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 22, 2012 at 10:10:28AM -0800, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > RTNL is a mutex, its perfectly valid to use GFP_KERNEL while holding a
> > mutex.
>
> Right, sorry. The check fires because we have preemption disabled.
>
> > As replied before your mail, fix for the problem is already in David
> > tree.
>
> Yep, saw that after hitting send.

Eric and Borislav,

The patch does fix my problem. I expect that it will be in mainline by -rc2.

Thanks,

Larry


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