netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/4] forcedeth: napi schedule lock fix

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Message-Id: <20090109.231323.225694598.davem@davemloft.net>
Date:	Fri, 09 Jan 2009 23:13:23 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	aabdulla@...dia.com
Cc:	manfred@...orfullife.com, jgarzik@...ox.com, akpm@...l.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] forcedeth: napi schedule lock fix

From: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@...dia.com>
Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2009 16:03:49 -0500

> This patch fixes a potential race condition between scheduling napi and completing napi poll. The call to netif_rx_schedule should be under protection of the lock (as is the completion), otherwise, interrupts could be masked off.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@...dia.com>

Another patch I had to apply by hand.

The 'dev' argument was removed from the netif_*() NAPI interfaces
and then were converted to napi_*() in the net-2.6 tree.
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