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authorManish Chopra <manish.chopra@qlogic.com>2014-09-30 03:56:35 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-09-30 16:22:43 -0400
commit0d36882013e61dc47aa835c4ec98b1fe776c9db8 (patch)
treed2bdf6d34aa1dae6b122364bdbd2b6a4e84e4bc9 /drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
parent705f1c869d577c8055736dd02501f26a2507dd5b (diff)
netxen: Fix BUG "sleeping function called from invalid context"
o __netxen_nic_down() function might sleep while holding spinlock_t(tx_clean_lock). Acquire this lock for only releasing TX buffers instead of taking it for whole down path. Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
index 1159031f885b..5ec5a2b0e989 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
@@ -1186,7 +1186,6 @@ __netxen_nic_down(struct netxen_adapter *adapter, struct net_device *netdev)
return;
smp_mb();
- spin_lock(&adapter->tx_clean_lock);
netif_carrier_off(netdev);
netif_tx_disable(netdev);
@@ -1204,7 +1203,6 @@ __netxen_nic_down(struct netxen_adapter *adapter, struct net_device *netdev)
netxen_napi_disable(adapter);
netxen_release_tx_buffers(adapter);
- spin_unlock(&adapter->tx_clean_lock);
}
/* Usage: During suspend and firmware recovery module */