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Re: [PATCH] orinoco: fix GFP_KERNEL in orinoco_set_key with interrupts disabled

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On Thursday 10 of December 2009 21:34:53 Dave wrote:
> Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
> > I had to resurrect old notebook and immediately hit this under
> > 2.6.32:
> >
> > [   77.254109] WARNING: at
> > /home/bor/src/linux-git/kernel/lockdep.c:2465 lockdep
> > _trace_alloc+0x9a/0xa0()
> >
> > Until orinoco_lock can be converted from spinlock into mutex, this
> > patch is the most simple solution.
> 
> Thank you Andrey. The patch is correct (though it could clean up the
> misdirected comment 4 or 5 lines above).
> 

Do you want me to resubmit with this cleanup?

> Is it worth pushing this to stable?
> 

I think yes. Sleeping under spinlock with interrupts disabled is not fun 
even if it is very unlikely.

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