netdev - Re: [PATCH] Revert "usb: gadget: u_ether: synchronize with transmit when stopping queue"

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Date:	Thu, 24 Jul 2014 10:12:40 +0800
From:	Li RongQing <roy.qing.li@...il.com>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
	jeff.westfahl@...com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Revert "usb: gadget: u_ether: synchronize with transmit
 when stopping queue"

On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 10:06 AM, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
>> This reverts commit a9232076374334ca2bc2a448dfde96d38a54349a.
>
> Any reason you didn't cc: the people on that patch, nor the people that
> get_maintainer.pl says to?
>
> Odds are Felipe will miss this one...

jeff.westfahl@...com has been Cced, I think Felipe Balbi is maintainer of usb,
and I send it to linux-usb@...r.kernel.org, Felipe Balbi can see it.

Ok, next time, I will use get_maintainer.pl

-Roy


    crash as eth_start_xmit tries to use resources that gether_disconnect is
    freeing. Use netif_tx_lock/unlock around netif_stop_queue to ensure no
    threads are executing during the remainder of gether_disconnect.

    Signed-off-by: Jeff Westfahl <jeff.westfahl@...com>
    Tested-by: Jaeden Amero <jaeden.amero@...com>
    Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <balbi@...com>
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