From: Fabio Olive Leite <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> A while ago Ingo patched tcp_v4_rcv on net/ipv4/tcp_ipv4.c to use bh_lock_sock_nested and silence a lock validator warning. This fixed it for IPv4, but recently I saw a report of the same warning on IPv6.
Cc: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "David S. Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --- net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c~net-ipv6-bh_lock_sock_nested-on-tcp_v6_rcv net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c --- a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c~net-ipv6-bh_lock_sock_nested-on-tcp_v6_rcv +++ a/net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c @@ -1237,7 +1237,7 @@ process: skb->dev = NULL; - bh_lock_sock(sk); + bh_lock_sock_nested(sk); ret = 0; if (!sock_owned_by_user(sk)) { #ifdef CONFIG_NET_DMA _ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html