netdev - Re: [PATCH net] tg3: Fix deadlock in tg3_change

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Date:	Thu, 06 Feb 2014 20:06:47 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	nsujir@...adcom.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, david.vrabel@...rix.com, mchan@...adcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] tg3: Fix deadlock in tg3_change_mtu()

From: Nithin Nayak Sujir <nsujir@...adcom.com>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 14:13:05 -0800

> Quoting David Vrabel -
> "5780 cards cannot have jumbo frames and TSO enabled together.  When
> jumbo frames are enabled by setting the MTU, the TSO feature must be
> cleared.  This is done indirectly by calling netdev_update_features()
> which will call tg3_fix_features() to actually clear the flags.
> 
> netdev_update_features() will also trigger a new netlink message for the
> feature change event which will result in a call to tg3_get_stats64()
> which deadlocks on the tg3 lock."
> 
> tg3_set_mtu() does not need to be under the tg3 lock since converting
> the flags to use set_bit(). Move it out to after tg3_netif_stop().
> 
> Reported-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
> Tested-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Chan <mchan@...adcom.com>
> Signed-off-by: Nithin Nayak Sujir <nsujir@...adcom.com>

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks.
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