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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: alistair@popple.id.au
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, benh@kernel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibm emac: Don't call napi_complete if napi_reschedule failed
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2013 19:13:01 -0400 (EDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131025.191301.1496864269923138314.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1382585780-13244-1-git-send-email-alistair@popple.id.au>

From: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:36:20 +1100

> This patch fixes a bug which would trigger the BUG_ON() at
> net/core/dev.c:4156. It was found that this was due to napi_complete
> being called even when the corresponding call to napi_reschedule had
> failed.
> 
> This patch ensures that we only contine processing rotting packets in
> the current mal_poll call if we are not already on the polling list.
> It also adds locking calls to protect the read-write-modify of the
> MAL_CFG DCR.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>

The mistaken napi_complete() call and the locking change are two different
bugs, fix them in two different patches.

  reply	other threads:[~2013-10-25 23:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-24  3:36 [PATCH] ibm emac: Don't call napi_complete if napi_reschedule failed Alistair Popple
2013-10-25 23:13 ` David Miller [this message]
2013-10-29 23:53   ` Alistair Popple

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