forcedeth: napi schedule lock fix
authorAyaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:09:04 +0000 (00:09 -0800)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Sun, 11 Jan 2009 08:11:28 +0000 (00:11 -0800)
This patch fixes a potential race condition between scheduling napi and
completing napi poll. The call to netif_rx_schedule should be under
protection of the lock (as is the completion), otherwise, interrupts
could be masked off.

Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <aabdulla@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/net/forcedeth.c

index e06782a60bd54ea8e2c9f1f721a74d2e551d5050..5b910cf63740877416f8a25f1b91f94da7b783d8 100644 (file)
@@ -3405,10 +3405,10 @@ static irqreturn_t nv_nic_irq(int foo, void *data)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_FORCEDETH_NAPI
                if (events & NVREG_IRQ_RX_ALL) {
+                       spin_lock(&np->lock);
                        netif_rx_schedule(&np->napi);
 
                        /* Disable furthur receive irq's */
-                       spin_lock(&np->lock);
                        np->irqmask &= ~NVREG_IRQ_RX_ALL;
 
                        if (np->msi_flags & NV_MSI_X_ENABLED)
@@ -3522,10 +3522,10 @@ static irqreturn_t nv_nic_irq_optimized(int foo, void *data)
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_FORCEDETH_NAPI
                if (events & NVREG_IRQ_RX_ALL) {
+                       spin_lock(&np->lock);
                        netif_rx_schedule(&np->napi);
 
                        /* Disable furthur receive irq's */
-                       spin_lock(&np->lock);
                        np->irqmask &= ~NVREG_IRQ_RX_ALL;
 
                        if (np->msi_flags & NV_MSI_X_ENABLED)