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| author | WingMan Kwok <w-kwok2@ti.com> | 2015-07-23 15:57:19 -0400 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2015-07-27 00:18:39 -0700 |
| commit | c0f54edbe26fbe8194d7e72c24c49f7b1c9c547f (patch) | |
| tree | 89277ca84708901c3855ff62e53df7c293fd0d87 /drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_ethss.c | |
| parent | ea6f82fe37319675e271dd6b55fb37731eef0e46 (diff) | |
net: netcp: Fixes the use of spin_lock_bh in timer function
This patch fixes a bug in which the timer routine synchronized
against the ethtool-triggered statistics updates with spin_lock_bh().
A timer function is itself a bottom-half, so this should be
spin_lock().
Signed-off-by: WingMan Kwok <w-kwok2@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_ethss.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_ethss.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_ethss.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_ethss.c index 9b7e0a34c98b..cabf97728b2d 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_ethss.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/ti/netcp_ethss.c @@ -2189,14 +2189,15 @@ static void netcp_ethss_timer(unsigned long arg) netcp_ethss_update_link_state(gbe_dev, slave, NULL); } - spin_lock_bh(&gbe_dev->hw_stats_lock); + /* A timer runs as a BH, no need to block them */ + spin_lock(&gbe_dev->hw_stats_lock); if (gbe_dev->ss_version == GBE_SS_VERSION_14) gbe_update_stats_ver14(gbe_dev, NULL); else gbe_update_stats(gbe_dev, NULL); - spin_unlock_bh(&gbe_dev->hw_stats_lock); + spin_unlock(&gbe_dev->hw_stats_lock); gbe_dev->timer.expires = jiffies + GBE_TIMER_INTERVAL; add_timer(&gbe_dev->timer); |