netdev - Re: ixgbe: RTNL assertion failed

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Message-ID: <20130506075828.717864ba@nehalam.linuxnetplumber.net>
Date:	Mon, 6 May 2013 07:58:28 -0700
From:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:	Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
Cc:	"Skidmore, Donald C" <donald.c.skidmore@...el.com>,
	"netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Kirsher, Jeffrey T" <jeffrey.t.kirsher@...el.com>
Subject: Re: ixgbe: RTNL assertion failed

On Sat, 04 May 2013 22:21:32 +0100
Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, 2013-05-04 at 21:05 +0000, Skidmore, Donald C wrote:
> [...]
> > > The version of ixgbe in this Debian kernel has bql support backported, but is
> > > otherwise the same as in 3.2.41.  I assume that this bug has been fixed some
> > > time between 3.2 and 3.9, but no-one requested that the fix be included in
> > > stable branches.  Please can you identify the fix?
> > > 
> > > Ben.
> > > 
> > > --
> > > Ben Hutchings
> > > We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
> > >                                                               - Albert Camus
> > 
> > I believe this is the patch:
> > 
> > commit 34948a947d1a576c10afee6d14792fd237549577
> > Author: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@...e.de>
> > Date:   Fri Apr 6 07:20:21 2012 +0000
> > 
> >     ixgbe: add missing rtnl_lock in PM resume path
> [...]
> 
> Looks like it.  And it applies cleanly to 3.2.y.  Stephen, could you
> test this on top of 3.2.y and then nominate it for stable?
> 
> Ben.
> 

Patch works.
Tested with 3.2.44 with this patch and there is no problem.

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