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)

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