netdev - Re: [NET]: Fix dev->qdisc race for NETDEV_TX

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Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 21:55:17 +1000
From:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
To:	tgraf@...g.ch (Thomas Graf)
Cc:	davem@...emloft.net, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NET]: Fix dev->qdisc race for NETDEV_TX_LOCKED case

Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch> wrote:
> When transmit fails with NETDEV_TX_LOCKED the skb is requeued
> to dev->qdisc again. The dev->qdisc pointer is protected by
> the queue lock which needs to be dropped when attempting to
> transmit and acquired again before requeing. The problem is
> that qdisc_restart() fetches the dev->qdisc pointer once and
> stores it in the `q' variable which is invalidated when
> dropping the queue_lock, therefore the variable needs to be
> refreshed before requeueing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>

I agree, good catch Thomas.

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