From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [net] igb: fix rtnl race in PM resume path Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 22:45:12 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20120510.224512.1770094068726953877.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1336700317-31929-1-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: bpoirier@suse.de, netdev@vger.kernel.org, gospo@redhat.com, sassmann@redhat.com To: jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([198.137.202.13]:56389 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756073Ab2EKCpV (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 May 2012 22:45:21 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1336700317-31929-1-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: Jeff Kirsher Date: Thu, 10 May 2012 18:38:37 -0700 > From: Benjamin Poirier > > Since the caller (PM resume code) is not the one holding rtnl, when taking the > 'else' branch rtnl may be released at any moment, thereby defeating the whole > purpose of this code block. > > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier > Tested-by: Jeff Pieper > Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher Applied, thanks Jeff.