Re: [PATCH v2] net: l2tp: unlock socket lock before returning froml2tp_ip_sendmsg

[Eric Dumazet]

On Wed, 2012-05-02 at 15:58 +0200, Sasha Levin wrote:
> l2tp_ip_sendmsg could return without releasing socket lock, making it all the
> way to userspace, and generating the following warning:
> 
> [  130.891594] ================================================
> [  130.894569] [ BUG: lock held when returning to user space! ]
> [  130.897257] 3.4.0-rc5-next-20120501-sasha #104 Tainted: G        W
> [  130.900336] ------------------------------------------------
> [  130.902996] trinity/8384 is leaving the kernel with locks still held!
> [  130.906106] 1 lock held by trinity/8384:
> [  130.907924]  #0:  (sk_lock-AF_INET){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff82b9503f>] l2tp_ip_sendmsg+0x2f/0x550
> 
> Introduced by commit 2f16270 ("l2tp: Fix locking in l2tp_ip.c").
> 
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <levinsasha928@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---

Oh well, please read Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt

Also, David prefers to handle stable submissions himself for net tree.

Anyway :

Acked-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@xxxxxxxxxx>


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