From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Miller Subject: Re: [PATCH] usbnet: fix deadlock in resume Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:12:33 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <20120831.161233.1367551762954796924.davem@davemloft.net> References: <1346049698-10740-1-git-send-email-oliver@neukum.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, ming.lei@canonical.com, oneukum@suse.de, stable@kernel.org To: oliver@neukum.org Return-path: Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:53166 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754997Ab2HaUMf (ORCPT ); Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:12:35 -0400 In-Reply-To: <1346049698-10740-1-git-send-email-oliver@neukum.org> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: From: oliver@neukum.org Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:41:38 +0200 > From: Oliver Neukum > > A usbnet device can share a multifunction device > with a storage device. If the storage device is autoresumed > the usbnet devices also needs to be autoresumed. Allocating > memory with GFP_KERNEL can deadlock in this case. > > This should go back into all kernels that have > commit 65841fd5132c3941cdf5df09e70df3ed28323212 > That is 3.5 > > Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum Applied, thanks.