Re: [lock validator] inet6_destroy_sock(): soft-safe -> soft-unsafe lock dependency

From: Herbert Xu
Date: Thu Feb 02 2006 - 07:17:43 EST


On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 12:27:31PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> i think this might be a false positive, caused by my (ill-advised)
> change below? [i did the change to clean up an unlock ordering
> assymetry, but apparently i thus also introduced the xmit_lock ->
> queue_lock dependency.]

As far as I can see your change can't cause the previous report,
unless the validator is treating the trylock in the same way as
a normal lock operation.

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