netdev - [PATCH 1/4] r8169: RTNL and flush_scheduled

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Message-ID: <20070215223721.GA19840@electric-eye.fr.zoreil.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:37:21 +0100
From:	Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
To:	jeff@...zik.org
Cc:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Ben Greear <greearb@...delatech.com>,
	Kyle Lucke <klucke@...ibm.com>,
	Raghavendra Koushik <raghavendra.koushik@...erion.com>,
	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>,
	Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@...tstofly.org>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/4] r8169: RTNL and flush_scheduled_work deadlock

flush_scheduled_work() in net_device->close has a slight tendency
to deadlock with tasks on the workqueue that hold RTNL.

rtl8169_close/down simply need the recovery tasks to not meddle
with the hardware while the device is going down.

Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@...zoreil.com>
---
 drivers/net/r8169.c |   25 ++++++++++++++++++-------
 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/r8169.c b/drivers/net/r8169.c
index 5598d86..13cf06e 100644
--- a/drivers/net/r8169.c
+++ b/drivers/net/r8169.c
@@ -1733,6 +1733,8 @@ rtl8169_remove_one(struct pci_dev *pdev)
 	assert(dev != NULL);
 	assert(tp != NULL);
 
+	flush_scheduled_work();
+
 	unregister_netdev(dev);
 	rtl8169_release_board(pdev, dev, tp->mmio_addr);
 	pci_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL);
@@ -2161,10 +2163,13 @@ static void rtl8169_reinit_task(struct work_struct *work)
 	struct net_device *dev = tp->dev;
 	int ret;
 
-	if (netif_running(dev)) {
-		rtl8169_wait_for_quiescence(dev);
-		rtl8169_close(dev);
-	}
+	rtnl_lock();
+
+	if (!netif_running(dev))
+		goto out_unlock;
+
+	rtl8169_wait_for_quiescence(dev);
+	rtl8169_close(dev);
 
 	ret = rtl8169_open(dev);
 	if (unlikely(ret < 0)) {
@@ -2179,6 +2184,9 @@ static void rtl8169_reinit_task(struct work_struct *work)
 		}
 		rtl8169_schedule_work(dev, rtl8169_reinit_task);
 	}
+
+out_unlock:
+	rtnl_unlock();
 }
 
 static void rtl8169_reset_task(struct work_struct *work)
@@ -2187,8 +2195,10 @@ static void rtl8169_reset_task(struct work_struct *work)
 		container_of(work, struct rtl8169_private, task.work);
 	struct net_device *dev = tp->dev;
 
+	rtnl_lock();
+
 	if (!netif_running(dev))
-		return;
+		goto out_unlock;
 
 	rtl8169_wait_for_quiescence(dev);
 
@@ -2210,6 +2220,9 @@ static void rtl8169_reset_task(struct work_struct *work)
 		}
 		rtl8169_schedule_work(dev, rtl8169_reset_task);
 	}
+
+out_unlock:
+	rtnl_unlock();
 }
 
 static void rtl8169_tx_timeout(struct net_device *dev)
@@ -2722,8 +2735,6 @@ static void rtl8169_down(struct net_device *dev)
 
 	netif_stop_queue(dev);
 
-	flush_scheduled_work();
-
 core_down:
 	spin_lock_irq(&tp->lock);
 
-- 
1.4.4.4

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