for preventing race conditions within ioctl calls. Signed-off-by: Ivan Mikhaylov <i...@de.ibm.com> --- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c index 2dfc603..7af09cb 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/emac/core.c @@ -977,7 +977,10 @@ static void emac_set_multicast_list(struct net_device *ndev) dev->mcast_pending = 1; return; } + + mutex_lock(&dev->link_lock); __emac_set_multicast_list(dev); + mutex_unlock(&dev->link_lock); } static int emac_set_mac_address(struct net_device *ndev, void *sa) -- 2.7.4 (Apple Git-66)