On Sat, 17 Jul 2010, David Miller wrote:

quoted text
> From: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
> Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:17:29 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> > 
> > 
> > On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, David Miller wrote:
> > 
> >> From: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>
> >> Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:20:52 -0700 (PDT)
> >> 
> >> > Is this what you suggest :
> >> > 
> >> > ---
> >> > 
> >> > Hold rtnl_lock to get the right link state.
> >> 
> >> It ought to work, but make sure that it is legal to take the
> >> RTNL semaphore in all contexts in which this code block
> >> might be called.
> >> 
> > 
> > This code block is called only from the workqueue handler, which runs in
> > process context, so it is legal to take rtnl semaphore.
> > Tested this code by simulating event interrupts (which schedule this 
> > code) at considerable frequency while the interface was brought up and
> > down in a loop. Similar stress testing had revealed the bug originally. 
> 
> Awesome, please submit this formally.  The copy you sent lacked a commit
> message and signoff.
> 

Reposting the patch formally.

David,
Thanks for your coperation.

->Shreyas

---
From: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>

Hold rtnl_lock to get the right link state.

While asynchronously resetting the device, hold rtnl_lock to get the
right value from netif_running. If a reset is scheduled, and the device
goes thru close and open, it may happen that reset and open may run in
parallel. Holding rtnl_lock will avoid this.

Signed-off-by: Shreyas Bhatewara <sbhatewara@vmware.com>

---

 drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c
index 1b0ce8c..c4d7e42 100644
--- a/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/net/vmxnet3/vmxnet3_drv.c
@@ -2420,6 +2420,7 @@ vmxnet3_reset_work(struct work_struct *data)
 		return;
 
 	/* if the device is closed, we must leave it alone */
+	rtnl_lock();
 	if (netif_running(adapter->netdev)) {
 		printk(KERN_INFO "%s: resetting\n", adapter->netdev->name);
 		vmxnet3_quiesce_dev(adapter);
@@ -2428,6 +2429,7 @@ vmxnet3_reset_work(struct work_struct *data)
 	} else {
 		printk(KERN_INFO "%s: already closed\n", adapter->netdev->name);
 	}
+	rtnl_unlock();
 
 	clear_bit(VMXNET3_STATE_BIT_RESETTING, &adapter->state);
 }
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