netdev - Re: [NET]: Fix dev->qdisc race for NETDEV_TX

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Date:	Thu, 10 May 2007 04:56:18 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
Cc:	tgraf@...g.ch, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [NET]: Fix dev->qdisc race for NETDEV_TX_LOCKED case

From: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 21:55:17 +1000

> Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch> wrote:
> > When transmit fails with NETDEV_TX_LOCKED the skb is requeued
> > to dev->qdisc again. The dev->qdisc pointer is protected by
> > the queue lock which needs to be dropped when attempting to
> > transmit and acquired again before requeing. The problem is
> > that qdisc_restart() fetches the dev->qdisc pointer once and
> > stores it in the `q' variable which is invalidated when
> > dropping the queue_lock, therefore the variable needs to be
> > refreshed before requeueing.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <tgraf@...g.ch>
> 
> I agree, good catch Thomas.

Applied to my tree and I'll push it off to Linus tomorrow unless
someone finds a problem with it by then.

Thanks.
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