netdev - Re: [PATCH] usbnet: fix deadlock in resume

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Date:	Fri, 31 Aug 2012 16:12:33 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	oliver@...kum.org
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, ming.lei@...onical.com, oneukum@...e.de,
	stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usbnet: fix deadlock in resume

From: oliver@...kum.org
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2012 08:41:38 +0200

> From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
> 
> A usbnet device can share a multifunction device
> with a storage device. If the storage device is autoresumed
> the usbnet devices also needs to be autoresumed. Allocating
> memory with GFP_KERNEL can deadlock in this case.
> 
> This should go back into all kernels that have
> commit 65841fd5132c3941cdf5df09e70df3ed28323212
> That is 3.5
> 
> Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>

Applied, thanks.
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