> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jason Wang [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, March 3, 2014 10:10 PM
> To: Haiyang Zhang; [email protected]; [email protected]
> Cc: KY Srinivasan; [email protected]; [email protected]; driverdev-
> [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next] hyperv: Move state setting for link query
> 
> On 03/04/2014 07:54 AM, Haiyang Zhang wrote:
> > It moves the state setting for query into rndis_filter_receive_response().
> > All callbacks including query-complete and status-callback are
> > synchronized by channel->inbound_lock. This prevents pentential race
> between them.
> 
> This still looks racy to me. The problem is workqueue is not synchronized with
> those here.
> 
> Consider the following case in netvsc_link_change():
> 
>     if (rdev->link_state) {
>     ... receive interrupt ...
>     rndis_filter_receice_response() which changes rdev->link_state
>     ...
>         netif_carrier_off()
>     }
> 
> And also it need to schedule a work otherwise the link status is out of sync.

I will update this patch to schedule a work by the end of probe function.

Thanks,
- Haiyang

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