Re: Avoid deadlock situation due to use of xmit_lock

2016-12-06 Thread Lino Sanfilippo
Hi, On 06.12.2016 16:06, David Miller wrote: > From: Lino Sanfilippo > Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2016 00:06:04 +0100 > >> after stumbling over a potential deadlock situation in the altera driver >> (see http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=148054615230447&w=2), I checked >> all other ethernet drivers for

Re: Avoid deadlock situation due to use of xmit_lock

2016-12-06 Thread David Miller
From: Lino Sanfilippo Date: Sat, 3 Dec 2016 00:06:04 +0100 > after stumbling over a potential deadlock situation in the altera driver > (see http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=148054615230447&w=2), I checked > all other ethernet drivers for the same issue and actually found it in 2 > more, name

Avoid deadlock situation due to use of xmit_lock

2016-12-02 Thread Lino Sanfilippo
Hi, after stumbling over a potential deadlock situation in the altera driver (see http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=148054615230447&w=2), I checked all other ethernet drivers for the same issue and actually found it in 2 more, namely stmmac, and sxgbe. Please see the commit messages for a descr