From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: divy@chelsio.com
Cc: dm@chelsio.com, leedom@chelsio.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cxgb4vf: fix crash due to manipulating queues before registration
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:06:26 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101101.140626.229737015.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CCF2B00.3060602@chelsio.com>
From: Divy Le Ray <divy@chelsio.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2010 14:02:56 -0700
> On 10/29/2010 01:05 PM, David Miller wrote:
>> From: "Dimitrios Michailidis"<dm@chelsio.com>
>> Date: Fri, 29 Oct 2010 00:36:22 -0700
>>
>>> Further, I believe moving the call after register_netdev is buggy as
>>> open can be called after registration and it can clash with the
>>> queue stopping. It seems then that these netif_tx_stop_all_queues
>>> calls have to go now.
>> This is a good explanation of why no driver should be touching the
>> queue state before the first ->open() call.
>
> I'm sending a series of 3 patches fixing cxgb3, cxgb4, cxgb4vf.
Thank you.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-01 21:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-28 20:16 [PATCH] cxgb4vf: fix crash due to manipulating queues before registration Casey Leedom
2010-10-28 20:21 ` David Miller
2010-10-28 21:16 ` Casey Leedom
2010-10-29 7:36 ` Dimitrios Michailidis
2010-10-29 20:05 ` David Miller
2010-11-01 21:02 ` Divy Le Ray
2010-11-01 21:06 ` David Miller [this message]
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