netdev - [PATCH 5/7] vxge: hotplug stall

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: <1292025782-16372-5-git-send-email-jon.mason@exar.com>
Date:	Fri, 10 Dec 2010 18:03:00 -0600
From:	Jon Mason <jon.mason@...r.com>
To:	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:	netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	Sivakumar Subramani <sivakumar.subramani@...r.com>,
	Sreenivasa Honnur <sreenivasa.honnur@...r.com>,
	Ram Vepa <ram.vepa@...r.com>
Subject: [PATCH 5/7] vxge: hotplug stall

When hot-unplugging a vxge adapter while running, the driver's remove
routine prints warning and then stalls the calling thread.  This is due
to vxge_remove calling vxge_device_unregister to unregister the netdev
before calling flush_scheduled_work clear any pending work.  Swapping
the order of these two functions resolves the issue.

Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jon.mason@...r.com>
Signed-off-by: Ram Vepa <ram.vepa@...r.com>
---
 drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.c b/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.c
index 3ec8068..b771e4b 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vxge/vxge-main.c
@@ -3439,11 +3439,11 @@ static void vxge_device_unregister(struct __vxge_hw_device *hldev)
 
 	strncpy(buf, dev->name, IFNAMSIZ);
 
+	flush_scheduled_work();
+
 	/* in 2.6 will call stop() if device is up */
 	unregister_netdev(dev);
 
-	flush_scheduled_work();
-
 	vxge_debug_init(vdev->level_trace, "%s: ethernet device unregistered",
 			buf);
 	vxge_debug_entryexit(vdev->level_trace,	"%s: %s:%d  Exiting...", buf,
-- 
1.7.0.4

--
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