linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH net] netvsc: don't flush peers notifying work during setting mtu

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Message-Id: <20131217.144614.1217520884557723259.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Tue, 17 Dec 2013 14:46:14 -0500 (EST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jasowang@...hat.com
Cc:	kys@...rosoft.com, haiyangz@...rosoft.com,
	devel@...uxdriverproject.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netvsc: don't flush peers notifying work during
 setting mtu

From: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 17:21:27 +0800

> There's a possible deadlock if we flush the peers notifying work during setting
> mtu:
 ...
> Reported-by: Yaju Cao <yacao@...hat.com>
> Tested-by: Yaju Cao <yacao@...hat.com>
> Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@...rosoft.com>
> Cc: Haiyang Zhang <haiyangz@...rosoft.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jason Wang <jasowang@...hat.com>
> ---
> The patch is needed for stable.

Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Jason.
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