The skge driver will deadlock if gets a transmit timeout because the netif_tx_lock() is already held. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger --- drivers/net/skge.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- skge-dev.orig/drivers/net/skge.c +++ skge-dev/drivers/net/skge.c @@ -2576,7 +2576,11 @@ static int skge_down(struct net_device * skge_led(skge, LED_MODE_OFF); netif_poll_disable(dev); + + netif_tx_lock_bh(dev); skge_tx_clean(dev); + netif_tx_unlock_bh(dev); + skge_rx_clean(skge); kfree(skge->rx_ring.start); @@ -2721,7 +2725,6 @@ static void skge_tx_clean(struct net_dev struct skge_port *skge = netdev_priv(dev); struct skge_element *e; - netif_tx_lock_bh(dev); for (e = skge->tx_ring.to_clean; e != skge->tx_ring.to_use; e = e->next) { struct skge_tx_desc *td = e->desc; skge_tx_free(skge, e, td->control); @@ -2730,7 +2733,6 @@ static void skge_tx_clean(struct net_dev skge->tx_ring.to_clean = e; netif_wake_queue(dev); - netif_tx_unlock_bh(dev); } static void skge_tx_timeout(struct net_device *dev) -- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html