From 1a35ca80c1db7279c3c0655063f6d3490e399b17 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 05:47:03 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] packet: dont call sleeping functions while holding rcu_read_lock() commit 654d1f8a019dfa06d (packet: less dev_put() calls) introduced a problem, calling potentially sleeping functions from a rcu_read_lock() protected section. Fix this by releasing lock before the sock_wmalloc()/memcpy_fromiovec() calls. After skb allocation and copy from user space, we redo device lookup and appropriate tests. Reported-and-tested-by: Frederic Weisbecker Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-format-patch failed