From: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 08:45:55 -0800
> On Fri, 2013-11-29 at 06:39 +0100, Hannes Frederic Sowa wrote: >> IPv6 stats are 64 bits and thus are protected with a seqlock. By not >> disabling bottom-half we could deadlock here if we don't disable bh and >> a softirq reentrantly updates the same mib. >> >> Cc: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> >> Signed-off-by: Hannes Frederic Sowa <[email protected]> >> --- > > Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <[email protected]> > > (Note that the seqlock is only for 32bit arches) Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

