netdev - Re: [PATCH] ibm emac: Don't call napi_complete if napi

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Date:	Fri, 25 Oct 2013 19:13:01 -0400 (EDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	alistair@...ple.id.au
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, benh@...nel.crashing.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ibm emac: Don't call napi_complete if napi_reschedule
 failed

From: Alistair Popple <alistair@...ple.id.au>
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2013 14:36:20 +1100

> This patch fixes a bug which would trigger the BUG_ON() at
> net/core/dev.c:4156. It was found that this was due to napi_complete
> being called even when the corresponding call to napi_reschedule had
> failed.
> 
> This patch ensures that we only contine processing rotting packets in
> the current mal_poll call if we are not already on the polling list.
> It also adds locking calls to protect the read-write-modify of the
> MAL_CFG DCR.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Alistair Popple <alistair@...ple.id.au>

The mistaken napi_complete() call and the locking change are two different
bugs, fix them in two different patches.
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