netdev - Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/3] e1000: fix occasional panic on unload

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Date:	Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:34:28 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org, gospo@...hat.com, bphilips@...ell.com,
	jesse.brandeburg@...el.com
Subject: Re: [net-next-2.6 PATCH 2/3] e1000: fix occasional panic on unload

From: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 21:22:42 -0700

> From: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
> 
> Net drivers in general have an issue where timers fired
> by mod_timer or work threads with schedule_work are running
> outside of the rtnl_lock.
> 
> With no other lock protection these routines are vulnerable
> to races with driver unload or reset paths.
> 
> The longer term solution to this might be a redesign with
> safer locks being taken in the driver to guarantee no
> reentrance, but for now a safe and effective fix is
> to take the rtnl_lock in these routines.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@...el.com>
> Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <jeffrey.e.pieper@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>

Applied.
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