Subject: Re: [PATCH] sky2: Lock transmit queue while disabling device

From: Jarek Poplawski <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 7 Jan 2010 06:35:46 +0000

On 07-01-2010 05:27, David Miller wrote:
> From: Mike McCormack <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:55:31 +0900
> 
>> netif_device_detach() does not take the tx_lock, so it's
>>  possible that a call to sky2_xmit_frame is still in
>>  progress after netif_device_detach() is complete.
>>
>> Take netif_tx_lock() to make sure all transmits have
>>  stopped while we're disabling the devices and that
>>  no other CPU is still transmitting a frame after
>>  we've disabling the device.
>>
>> Proposed fix for "sky2 panic under load" reported by Berck E. Nash.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mike McCormack <[email-masked]>
> 
> Applied to net-next-2.6
> 
> Stephen has asked for some further refinements, once that is
> all sorted we can think about backporting this to net-2.6
> and -stable if necessary.
> 

David, I'm not sure you chose the right (working) patch from this
thread. Please, reconsider this:
Subject: [PATCH v2] sky2: Fix oops in sky2_xmit_frame() after TX timeout
Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 19:48:41 +0100
http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/148160

Thanks,
Jarek P.