Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261523AbTHYG37 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2003 02:29:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261521AbTHYG36 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2003 02:29:58 -0400 Received: from [61.34.11.200] ([61.34.11.200]:51422 "EHLO ns.aratech.co.kr") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261523AbTHYG35 (ORCPT ); Mon, 25 Aug 2003 02:29:57 -0400 Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 15:31:55 +0900 From: TeJun Huh To: Stephan von Krawczynski Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Race condition in 2.4 tasklet handling (cli() broken?) Message-ID: <20030825063155.GA11458@atj.dyndns.org> References: <20030823025448.GA32547@atj.dyndns.org> <20030823040931.GA3872@atj.dyndns.org> <20030823052633.GA4307@atj.dyndns.org> <20030823122813.0c90e241.skraw@ithnet.com> <20030823151315.GA6781@atj.dyndns.org> <20030823173736.13235adc.skraw@ithnet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030823173736.13235adc.skraw@ithnet.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 730 Lines: 17 On Sat, Aug 23, 2003 at 05:37:36PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote: > > Feel free to ask anything about the issue, I will try to help however possible. A deadlock occured today on our test machine, and the offending part was drivers/char/random.c:iplock. The spinlock is used without _bh suffix both by the connect and accept paths causing deadlock occasionally. This seemed to be already fixed in the latest 2.4 bk tree. I believe this will cure our problem. :-) -- tejun - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/