From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com,
asaitou@users.sourceforge.net, donald.c.skidmore@intel.com
Subject: Re: [net-2.6 PATCH] ixgbe: fix for race with 8259(8|9) during shutdown
Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2010 18:21:26 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100613.182126.39175323.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100611232029.31430.75582.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Date: Fri, 11 Jun 2010 16:20:29 -0700
> From: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>
>
> There is a small window where the watchdog could be running as the
> interface is brought down on a NIC with two ports wired back to back.
> If ixgbe_update_status is then called can lead to a panic. This patch
> allows the update to bail if we are in that condition.
>
> This issue was orignally reported and fix proposed by Akihiko Saitou.
>
> CC: Akihiko Saitou <asaitou@users.sourceforge.net>
> Signed-off-by: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Applied.
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2010-06-11 23:20 [net-2.6 PATCH] ixgbe: fix for race with 8259(8|9) during shutdown Jeff Kirsher
2010-06-14 1:21 ` David Miller [this message]
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