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SubjectRe: [patch] net: dev_watchdog() locking fix
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On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 09:55:22PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
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> fallout of the recent big networking merge i guess. Tested fix below.
> David, Herbert, do you agree with it, or is it a false positive?

I agree that this is a bug, but the fix is in the wrong spot. The
dev_watchdog function already runs in softirq context so it doesn't
need to disable BH.

You can almost be guaranteed that if netpoll is involved in a bug
then it should be fixed :)

In this case, it's taking the tx lock in process context which is
not allowed. So it should disable BH before taking the tx lock.

Thanks,
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