netdev - Re: [PATCH RESEND] net/cisco: Fix a sleep-in-atomic-context bug in enic_init_affinity

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Date:   Tue, 23 Jun 2020 20:24:03 -0700 (PDT)
From:   David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:     likaige@...ngson.cn
Cc:     kuba@...nel.org, benve@...co.com, _govind@....com,
        netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        lixuefeng@...ngson.cn, yangtiezhu@...ngson.cn
Subject: Re: [PATCH RESEND] net/cisco: Fix a sleep-in-atomic-context bug in
 enic_init_affinity_hint()

From: Kaige Li <likaige@...ngson.cn>
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2020 10:07:16 +0800

> You are right. Should I do spin_unlock before the enic_open, or remove
> spin_lock in enic_reset?

You need to learn how this driver's locking works and design a correct
adjustment.