On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 4:31 PM, Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I did not pretend to give a bug fix, I simply said your patch series was > probably not the right way.
Generally I agree with you on avoid synchronize_rcu(), but this case is very special, you need to consider case by case, not just talking generally. > > Sure, we could add back BKL and solve a lot of lockdep issues. > > For the record, this case is about race conditions which lead to real bugs, not merely lockdep warnings.
