From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org, greg@suse.de,
e1000-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
davej@redhat.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au
Subject: Re: [PATCH] e1000: Don't enable polling in open() (was: e1000: assertion hit in e1000_clean(), kernel 2.6.21.1)
Date: Mon, 21 May 2007 19:42:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46522E6F.9060600@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070521215134.14885.84952.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
Auke Kok wrote:
> Herbert Xu wrote:
> "netif_poll_enable can only be called if you've previously called
> netif_poll_disable. Otherwise a poll might already be in action
> and you may get a crash like this."
>
> Removing the call to netif_poll_enable in e1000_open should fix this issue,
> the only other call to netif_poll_enable is in e1000_up() which is only
> reached after a device reset or resume.
>
> Bugzilla: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8455
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=240339
>
> Tested by Doug Chapman <doug.chapman@hp.com>
>
> Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> ---
>
> drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c | 4 ----
> 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
applied, though as a poster (DaveJ?) noted, I'm not sure it completely
fixes the bug
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-05-21 23:42 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-05-21 21:51 [PATCH] e1000: Don't enable polling in open() (was: e1000: assertion hit in e1000_clean(), kernel 2.6.21.1) Auke Kok
2007-05-21 22:16 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-22 0:49 ` Herbert Xu
2007-05-22 0:58 ` Kok, Auke
2007-05-22 1:22 ` Dave Jones
2007-05-21 23:42 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-05-22 0:04 ` Kok, Auke
2007-05-22 1:01 ` Herbert Xu
2007-05-22 16:56 ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-05-22 17:02 ` Kok, Auke
2007-05-23 10:47 ` Herbert Xu
2007-05-23 23:34 ` Chris Wright
2007-05-23 23:38 ` Kok, Auke
2007-05-24 1:29 ` Herbert Xu
2007-05-24 4:31 ` Chris Wright
2007-05-24 1:29 ` Herbert Xu
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-05-21 15:32 Auke Kok
2007-05-21 21:26 ` Herbert Xu
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