Re: NET: ASSERT_RTNL in __dev_set_promiscuity makes debug warning

From: Jarek Poplawski
Date: Tue Dec 04 2007 - 17:23:47 EST


Joonwoo Park wrote, On 12/04/2007 10:48 AM:

> Hi,
> dev_set_rx_mode calls __dev_set_rx_mode with softirq disabled (by netif_tx_lock_bh)
> therefore __dev_set_promiscuity can be called with softirq disabled.
> It will cause in_interrupt() to return true and ASSERT_RTNL warning.
> Is there a good solution to fix it besides blowing ASSERT_RTNL up?


Fixing ASSERT_RTNL up?!

But, IMHO, blowing ASSERT_RTNL up in a few places shouldn't be much
worse. After all, how long such a debugging code should be kept. It
seems, at least sometimes we should be a bit more confident of how
it's called.

Regards,
Jarek P.
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