On Fri, Apr 1, 2016, at 05:03, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-03-31 at 18:45 -0700, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> 
> > Eric, what's your take on Hannes's patch 2 ?
> > Is it more accurate to ask lockdep to check for actual lock
> > or lockdep can rely on owned flag?
> > Potentially there could be races between setting the flag and
> > actual lock... but that code is contained, so unlikely.
> > Will we find the real issues with this 'stronger' check or
> > just spend a ton of time adapting to new model like your other
> > patch for release_sock and whatever may need to come next...
> 
> More precise lockdep checks are certainly good, I only objected to 4/4
> trying to work around another bug.
> 
> But why do we rush for 'net' tree ?
> 
> This looks net-next material to me.
> 
> Locking changes are often subtle, lets take the time to do them
> properly.

I certainly can see my mistake now trying to paper over the splats. Do
you object if I send the first patches to fix up the reported lockdep?

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