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Message-ID: <20070227095251.0c20eebd@freekitty>
Date:	Tue, 27 Feb 2007 09:52:51 -0800
From:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, bridge@...ux-foundation.org,
	Srinivas Aji <Aji_Srinivas@....com>
Subject: [PATCH 3+/4] bridge: fix locking of set path cost

This change goes with earlier change to get rid of 
work queue for path cost. Now stp_set_path_cost does its own
locking. This is to allow it to call br_path_cost() which calls
ethtool interfaces (might sleep).


Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>
---
 net/bridge/br_ioctl.c |    3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- bridge.orig/net/bridge/br_ioctl.c	2007-02-27 09:46:15.000000000 -0800
+++ bridge/net/bridge/br_ioctl.c	2007-02-27 09:43:24.000000000 -0800
@@ -291,12 +291,11 @@
 		if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
 			return -EPERM;
 
-		spin_lock_bh(&br->lock);
 		if ((p = br_get_port(br, args[1])) == NULL)
 			ret = -EINVAL;
 		else
 			br_stp_set_path_cost(p, args[2]);
-		spin_unlock_bh(&br->lock);
+
 		return ret;
 	}
 
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