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authorMichael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com>2005-08-25 15:34:29 -0700
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@sunset.davemloft.net>2005-08-29 16:10:29 -0700
commitafdc08b9f9a7174d7912a160f657f39d46379b5e (patch)
tree04856840d578c029c8c675130ba93bd607bcaa1e /Documentation
parent2373ce1ca04dd46bf2b8b0f9a799eb2a90da92fb (diff)
[BNX2]: Fix rtnl deadlock in bnx2_close
This fixes an rtnl deadlock problem when flush_scheduled_work() is called from bnx2_close(). In rare cases, linkwatch_event() may be on the workqueue from a previous close of a different device and it will try to get the rtnl lock which is already held by dev_close(). The fix is to set a flag if we are in the reset task which is run from the workqueue. bnx2_close() will loop until the flag is cleared. As suggested by Jeff Garzik, the loop is changed to call msleep(1) instead of yield() in the original patch. flush_scheduled_work() is also moved to bnx2_remove_one() before the netdev is freed. Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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