Re: 2.6.39-rc6-mmotm0506 - another lockdep splat (networking thistime)

[David Miller]

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 05:47:51 +0200

> [PATCH net-next-2.6] net: fix two lockdep splats
> 
> Commit e67f88dd12f6 (net: dont hold rtnl mutex during netlink dump
> callbacks) switched rtnl protection to RCU, but we forgot to adjust two
> rcu_dereference() lockdep annotations :
> 
> inet_get_link_af_size() or inet_fill_link_af() might be called with
> rcu_read_lock or rtnl held, so use rcu_dereference_rtnl()
> instead of rtnl_dereference()
> 
> Reported-by: Valdis Kletnieks <Valdis.Kletnieks@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks everyone.
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