Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 22 Oct 2019 14:12:57 +0800 | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] xfrm : lock input tasklet skb queue |
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On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 09:31:13AM -0700, Tom Rix wrote: > When preempt rt is full, softirq and interrupts run in kthreads. So it > is possible for the tasklet to sleep and for its queue to get modified > while it sleeps.
This is ridiculous. The network stack is full of assumptions like this. So I think we need to fix preempt rt instead because you can't make a major change like this without auditing the entire kernel first rather than relying on a whack-a-mole approach.
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