[PATCH] 8139too deadlock fix
> stack backtrace: > [<f9099d31>] rtl8139_start_xmit+0xd9/0xff [8139too] > [<c11ad5ea>] netpoll_send_skb+0x98/0xea This seems to be a real deadlock... So netpoll_send_skb takes the _xmit_lock, which is all nitty gritty but then rtl8139_start_xmit comes around while that lock is taken, and does spin_unlock_irq(&tp->lock); which.. enables interrupts and softirqs; this is quite bad because the xmit lock is taken in softirq context for the watchdog like this: [<c1200376>] _spin_lock+0x23/0x32 [<c11af282>] dev_watchdog+0x14/0xb1 [<c101dab2>] run_timer_softirq+0xf2/0x14a [<c101a691>] __do_softirq+0x55/0xb0 [<c1004a8d>] do_softirq+0x58/0xbd Which would deadlock now that the spin_unlock_irq() has enabled irqs/softirqs while the _xmit_lock is still held. The patch below turns this into a irqsave/irqrestore pair so that interrupts don't get enabled unconditionally. Signed-off-by: NArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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