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[net,1/4] ixgbe: fix race condition with shutdown

Message ID 1336129504-29919-2-git-send-email-jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com
State Accepted, archived
Delegated to: David Miller
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Kirsher, Jeffrey T May 4, 2012, 11:05 a.m. UTC 
From: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>

It was possible for shutdown to pull the rug out from other driver entry
points.  Now we just grab the rtnl lock before taking everything apart.
Thanks to Hariharan for noticing this tight race condition.

Signed-off-by: Don Skidmore <donald.c.skidmore@intel.com>
Cc: Hariharan Nagarajan <hanagara@cisco.com>
Tested-by: Phil Schmitt <phillip.j.schmitt@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
---
 drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
index 88f6b2e..d9dbf87 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/intel/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c
@@ -4866,10 +4866,12 @@  static int __ixgbe_shutdown(struct pci_dev *pdev, bool *enable_wake)
 	netif_device_detach(netdev);
 
 	if (netif_running(netdev)) {
+		rtnl_lock();
 		ixgbe_down(adapter);
 		ixgbe_free_irq(adapter);
 		ixgbe_free_all_tx_resources(adapter);
 		ixgbe_free_all_rx_resources(adapter);
+		rtnl_unlock();
 	}
 
 	ixgbe_clear_interrupt_scheme(adapter);