Re: [PATCH] ipv6: get rid of ipip6_prl_lock

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From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2010 07:04:55 +0200

> [PATCH] ipv6: get rid of ipip6_prl_lock
> 
> As noticed by Julia Lawall, ipip6_tunnel_add_prl() incorrectly calls 
> kzallloc(..., GFP_KERNEL) while a spinlock is held. She provided
> a patch to use GFP_ATOMIC instead.
> 
> One possibility would be to convert this spinlock to a mutex, or
> preallocate the thing before taking the lock.
> 
> After RCU conversion, it appears we dont need this lock, since 
> caller already holds RTNL
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied, thanks everyone.
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