Re: [DEBUG INFO]IPv6: sleeping function called from invalid context.

[Herbert Xu]

Thomas Graf <tgraf@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> I did. I think it was right, why would an allocation be necessary on
> the second call to inet6_dump_fib()? The walker allocated in process
> context on the first call should be reused from cb->args[0].

Continued dumps are always called under spin lock (see netlink_dump).
So we need to use GFP_ATOMIC in dumpers.

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