Re: BUG in tcp.c ?

[Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxx>]

On Sat, Oct 07, 2000 at 04:16:09PM +0200, A.N.Kuznetsov wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> >    2.2.17 is broken too. 
> > 
> > I've fixed it in my 2.2.x sources as well.
> 
> Dave, sendmsg cannot be used from interrupt yet.
> Even in 2.2 it works sometimes, but surely will crash sometimes (f.e.
> because of socket lock on interrupt).
> 
> If some caller needs this, I am sure, it is buggy.

iirc nbd doesn't need it from an interrupt but just to avoid deadlock
on low memory situations when you swap over it.

Of course it is still broken because there are enough other problems
with swapping over TCP :-)


-Andi
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