Re: [PATCH 2.6] fix deadlock with ip_queue and tcp local input path

["David S. Miller" <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Harald Welte <laforge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.6] fix deadlock with ip_queue and tcp local input path
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 22:58:31 +0200

> On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 01:52:29PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>  
> > > Dave: Please don't apply yet, I want to receive feedback from the
> > > netfilter developers first.  I'm just Cc'ing netdev in case somebody
> > > wants an intermediate fix to fix the problem.
> > 
> > OK.
> 
> Do you have any feedback on why or how bh_lock_sock() might be called in
> the problem I've described?  I think it has to be a different skb for
> the same socket.

When we hit a listening socket, and hung off of that listening
socket we find a child socket, we bh_lock_sock() the child socket
then process the SKB against it instead of the listening socket.

Is this the kind of scenerio you are concerned about?