From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Prashant Sreedharan Subject: [PATCH net 0/3 v2]tg3: synchronize_irq() should be called without taking locks Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2015 11:33:12 -0800 Message-ID: <1421263992-23907-1-git-send-email-prashant@broadcom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Cc: , , , Prashant Sreedharan To: Return-path: Received: from mail-gw3-out.broadcom.com ([216.31.210.64]:2170 "EHLO mail-gw3-out.broadcom.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751854AbbANTvO (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2015 14:51:14 -0500 Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: v2: Added Reported-by, Tested-by fields and reference to the thread that reported the problem This series addresses the problem reported by Peter Hurley in mail thread https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/1/12/1082 Prashant Sreedharan (3): tg3_timer() should grab tp->lock before checking for tp->irq_sync tg3_reset_task() needs to use rtnl_lock to synchronize Release tp->lock before invoking synchronize_irq() Our QA team also has validated this patch series. Thanks. drivers/net/ethernet/broadcom/tg3.c | 23 ++++++++++++++++++++--- 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)