On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 08:23:45AM -0400, [email protected] wrote: > From: Kaike Wan <[email protected]> > > It was found by Saurabh Sengar that the netlink code tried to allocate > memory with GFP_KERNEL while holding a spinlock. While it is possible > to fix the issue by replacing GFP_KERNEL with GFP_ATOMIC, it is better > to get rid of the spinlock while sending the packet. However, in order > to protect against a race condition that a quick response may be received > before the request is put on the request list, we need to put the request > on the list first. > > Signed-off-by: Kaike Wan <[email protected]>
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