netdev - Re: ixgbe: RTNL assertion failed

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Date:	Sat, 04 May 2013 22:21:32 +0100
From:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:	"Skidmore, Donald C" <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
Cc:	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Subject: Re: ixgbe: RTNL assertion failed

On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 21:05 +0000, Skidmore, Donald C wrote:
[...]
> > The version of ixgbe in this Debian kernel has bql support backported, but is
> > otherwise the same as in 3.2.41.  I assume that this bug has been fixed some
> > time between 3.2 and 3.9, but no-one requested that the fix be included in
> > stable branches.  Please can you identify the fix?
> > 
> > Ben.
> > 
> > --
> > Ben Hutchings
> > We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
> >                                                               - Albert Camus
> 
> I believe this is the patch:
> 
> commit 34948a947d1a576c10afee6d14792fd237549577
> Author: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@...e.de>
> Date:   Fri Apr 6 07:20:21 2012 +0000
> 
>     ixgbe: add missing rtnl_lock in PM resume path
[...]

Looks like it.  And it applies cleanly to 3.2.y.  Stephen, could you
test this on top of 3.2.y and then nominate it for stable?

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Lowery's Law:
             If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.

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