• David S. Miller's avatar
    net: Eliminate flush_scheduled_work() calls while RTNL is held. · 4bb073c0
    David S. Miller authored
    If the RTNL is held when we invoke flush_scheduled_work() we could
    deadlock.  One such case is linkwatch, it is a work struct which tries
    to grab the RTNL semaphore.
    
    The most common case are net driver ->stop() methods.  The
    simplest conversion is to instead use cancel_{delayed_}work_sync()
    explicitly on the various work struct the driver uses.
    
    This is an OK transformation because these work structs are doing
    things like resetting the chip, restarting link negotiation, and so
    forth.  And if we're bringing down the device, we're about to turn the
    chip off and reset it anways.  So if we cancel a pending work event,
    that's fine here.
    
    Some drivers were working around this deadlock by using a msleep()
    polling loop of some sort, and those cases are converted to instead
    use cancel_{delayed_}work_sync() as well.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
    4bb073c0
tulip_core.c 54.3 KB