On Tue, 3 Oct 2006 16:18:35 +0100 (BST)
"Maciej W. Rozycki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 
> 2. The driver uses schedule_work() for handling interrupts, but does not 
>    make sure any pending work scheduled thus has been completed before 
>    driver's structures get freed from memory.  This is especially 
>    important as interrupts may keep arriving if the line is shared with 
>    another PHY.
> 
>    The solution is to ignore phy_interrupt() calls if the reported device 
>    has already been halted and calling flush_scheduled_work() from 
>    phy_stop_interrupts() (but guarded with current_is_keventd() in case 
>    the function has been called through keventd from the MAC device's 
>    close call to avoid a deadlock on the netlink lock).
> 

eww, hack.

Also not module-friendly:

WARNING: "current_is_keventd" [drivers/net/phy/libphy.ko] undefined!

Does this

static void flush_cpu_workqueue(struct cpu_workqueue_struct *cwq)
{
        if (cwq->thread == current) {
                /*
                 * Probably keventd trying to flush its own queue. So simply run
                 * it by hand rather than deadlocking.
                 */
                run_workqueue(cwq);

not work???
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