netdev - Re: [PATCH 28/33] sfc: Use mutex_lock_interruptible() for ethtool EEPROM access

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Message-Id: <20081212.220632.41364430.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:06:32 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	bhutchings@...arflare.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-net-drivers@...arflare.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 28/33] sfc: Use mutex_lock_interruptible() for ethtool
 EEPROM access

From: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 12:59:23 +0000

> ethtool must contend with the MTD driver for the SPI bus lock, which
> may carry out long operations such as flash erase.  Allow it to be
> interrupted while waiting.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@...arflare.com>

Applied.
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html