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* [PATCH 1/5] sky2: Avoid race in sky2_change_mtu
@ 2010-05-12 23:16 Mike McCormack
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From: Mike McCormack @ 2010-05-12 23:16 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Stephen Hemminger; +Cc: netdev

netif_stop_queue does not ensure all in-progress transmits are complete,
 so use netif_tx_disable() instead.

Secondly, make sure NAPI polls are disabled before stopping the tx queue,
 otherwise sky2_status_intr might trigger a TX queue wakeup between when
 we stop the queue and NAPI is disabled.

Signed-off-by: Mike McCormack <mikem@ring3k.org>
---
 drivers/net/sky2.c |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/sky2.c b/drivers/net/sky2.c
index 088c797..b839bae 100644
--- a/drivers/net/sky2.c
+++ b/drivers/net/sky2.c
@@ -2236,8 +2236,8 @@ static int sky2_change_mtu(struct net_device *dev, int new_mtu)
 	sky2_write32(hw, B0_IMSK, 0);
 
 	dev->trans_start = jiffies;	/* prevent tx timeout */
-	netif_stop_queue(dev);
 	napi_disable(&hw->napi);
+	netif_tx_disable(dev);
 
 	synchronize_irq(hw->pdev->irq);
 
-- 
1.5.6.5



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