Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 22 Dec 2012 13:04:29 -0600 | From | Larry Finger <> | Subject | Re: Regression in 3.8-rc1: "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context" |
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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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