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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netvsc: don't flush peers notifying work during
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 14:46:14 -0500 (EST)
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From: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 17:21:27 +0800

> There's a possible deadlock if we flush the peers notifying work during setting
> mtu:
 ...
> Reported-by: Yaju Cao <yacao@redhat.com>
> Tested-by: Yaju Cao <yacao@redhat.com>
> Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com>
> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@microsoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@redhat.com>
> ---
> The patch is needed for stable.

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Jason.