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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: mikem@ring3k.org
Cc: shemminger@vyatta.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, flyboy@gmail.com,
	dhazelton@enter.net, mbreuer@majjas.com,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org"@ogre.sisk.pl
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2: Lock transmit queue while disabling device
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:27:01 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100106.202701.161194890.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B3C8323.1080301@ring3k.org>

From: Mike McCormack <mikem@ring3k.org>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:55:31 +0900

> 
> netif_device_detach() does not take the tx_lock, so it's
>  possible that a call to sky2_xmit_frame is still in
>  progress after netif_device_detach() is complete.
> 
> Take netif_tx_lock() to make sure all transmits have
>  stopped while we're disabling the devices and that
>  no other CPU is still transmitting a frame after
>  we've disabling the device.
> 
> Proposed fix for "sky2 panic under load" reported by Berck E. Nash.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mike McCormack <mikem@ring3k.org>

Applied to net-next-2.6

Stephen has asked for some further refinements, once that is
all sorted we can think about backporting this to net-2.6
and -stable if necessary.

Thanks.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-01-07  4:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-31 10:55 [PATCH] sky2: Lock transmit queue while disabling device Mike McCormack
2009-12-31 15:58 ` Michael Breuer
2009-12-31 16:15   ` Daniel Hazelton
2009-12-31 16:33 ` Berck Nash
2009-12-31 18:51 ` Jarek Poplawski
2009-12-31 23:51   ` Mike McCormack
2010-01-01  3:06     ` Berck E. Nash
2010-01-01  6:42       ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-01 18:31     ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-04  2:44       ` Berck E. Nash
2010-01-04 13:49         ` [PATCH] sky2: Fix oops in sky2_xmit_frame() after TX timeout Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-04 18:26           ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-04 18:48             ` [PATCH v2] " Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-07  4:27 ` David Miller [this message]
2010-01-07  6:35   ` [PATCH] sky2: Lock transmit queue while disabling device Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-07  8:01     ` David Miller
2010-01-07  8:15       ` Jarek Poplawski
2010-01-07  8:19         ` David Miller
2010-01-07 13:48           ` Stephen Hemminger
2010-01-07 18:08           ` Stephen Hemminger

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