Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 4 Jun 2008 23:56:34 +0300 (EEST) | From | "Ilpo Järvinen" <> | Subject | Re: [fixed] [patch] Re: [bug] stuck localhost TCP connections, v2.6.26-rc3+ |
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On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, David Miller wrote:
> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> > Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 09:23:11 +0200 > > > * Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> wrote: > > > > > ...I couldn't immediately find anything obviously wrong with those > > > changes but the patch below might be worth of a try (without the > > > revert of course). If it ever spits out that WARN_ON for you, we were > > > playing with fire too much and it's better to return on the safe side > > > there... > > > > i'll queue it up for testing, but no promises about speedy action here - > > the test cycle is really long with this bug. > > Ilpo posted another patch which fixes a locking bug in the > code, please test with that patch. I include it below so > that you know exactly which one I am referring to.
Do you know if TCP ever needs to lock the child sk again (after creating it and it has started to live on its own) from a context that has already locked the listen_sk (it could deadlock after this change)?
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