netdev - Re: [PATCH for 2.6.31] cxgb3: Fix crash caused by stashing wrong netdev

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Date:	Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:16:56 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	divy@...lsio.com
Cc:	rdreier@...co.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH for 2.6.31] cxgb3: Fix crash caused by stashing wrong
 netdev_queue

From: Divy Le Ray <divy@...lsio.com>
Date: Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:15:21 -0700

> Roland Dreier wrote:
>> Commit c3a8c5b6 ("cxgb3: move away from LLTX") exposed a bug in how
>> cxgb3 looks up the netdev_queue it stashes away in a qset during
>> initialization.  For multiport devices, the TX queue index it uses is
>> offset by the first_qset index of each port.  This leads to a crash
>> once LLTX is removed, since hard_start_xmit is called with one TX
>> queue lock held, while the TX reclaim timer task grabs a different
>> (wrong) TX queue lock when it frees skbs.
>>
>> Fix this by removing the first_qset offset used to look up the TX
>> queue passed into t3_sge_alloc_qset() from setup_sge_qsets().
>>   
> 
> Thanks Roland!
> You were very fast to fix it, you beat us.
> 
> Acked-by: Divy Le Ray <divy@...lsio.com>
> 
>> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@...co.com>

Applied.
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