On Tue, 11 Jul 2006 00:36:39 -0400 Shailabh Nagar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> down_write(&listeners->sem); > list_for_each_entry_safe(s, tmp, &listeners->list, list) { > - ret = genlmsg_unicast(skb, s->pid); > + skb_next = NULL; > + if (!list_islast(&s->list, &listeners->list)) { > + skb_next = skb_clone(skb_cur, GFP_KERNEL); If we do a GFP_KERNEL allocation with this semaphore held, and the oom-killer tries to kill something to satisfy the allocation, and the killed task gets stuck on that semaphore, I wonder of the box locks up. Probably it'll work out OK if the semaphore is taken after that task has had some resources torn down. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html