https://github.com/torvalds/linux
Revision d5917307bb1caa9cb0a915951c57f4cdbacca443 authored by Somnath Kotur on 31 August 2017, 03:57:32 UTC, committed by Doug Ledford on 22 September 2017, 17:57:32 UTC
Upon receipt of the NETDEV_REGISTER event from the netdev notifier chain, the IB stack registration is spawned off to a workqueue since that also requires an rtnl lock. There could be 2 kinds of races between the NETDEV_REGISTER and the NETDEV_UNREGISTER event handling. a)The NETDEV_UNREGISTER event is received in rapid succession after the NETDEV_REGISTER event even before the work queue got a chance to run. b)The NETDEV_UNREGISTER event is received while the workqueue that handles registration with the IB stack is still in progress. Handle both the races with a bit flag that is set just before the work item is queued and cleared in the workqueue after the event is handled just before the workqueue item is freed. While adding the new flag, it was noted that the flags are all used in *_bit() operations which expect a bit number and not a literal constant with a bit set. So change the numbers to be bit numbers. Signed-off-by: Somnath Kotur <somnath.kotur@broadcom.com> Signed-off-by: Doug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
1 parent 027c892
Tip revision: d5917307bb1caa9cb0a915951c57f4cdbacca443 authored by Somnath Kotur on 31 August 2017, 03:57:32 UTC
bnxt_re: Fix race between the netdev register and unregister events
bnxt_re: Fix race between the netdev register and unregister events
Tip revision: d591730
| File | Mode | Size |
|---|---|---|
| Documentation | ||
| arch | ||
| block | ||
| certs | ||
| crypto | ||
| drivers | ||
| firmware | ||
| fs | ||
| include | ||
| init | ||
| ipc | ||
| kernel | ||
| lib | ||
| mm | ||
| net | ||
| samples | ||
| scripts | ||
| security | ||
| sound | ||
| tools | ||
| usr | ||
| virt | ||
| .cocciconfig | -rw-r--r-- | 59 bytes |
| .get_maintainer.ignore | -rw-r--r-- | 31 bytes |
| .gitattributes | -rw-r--r-- | 30 bytes |
| .gitignore | -rw-r--r-- | 1.3 KB |
| .mailmap | -rw-r--r-- | 8.1 KB |
| COPYING | -rw-r--r-- | 18.3 KB |
| CREDITS | -rw-r--r-- | 96.2 KB |
| Kbuild | -rw-r--r-- | 2.2 KB |
| Kconfig | -rw-r--r-- | 252 bytes |
| MAINTAINERS | -rw-r--r-- | 410.5 KB |
| Makefile | -rw-r--r-- | 58.8 KB |
| README | -rw-r--r-- | 722 bytes |
Computing file changes ...
