From e1210d127d11fc40d229648c9754aa60776ef796 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Dumazet Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 03:45:10 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] bnx2x: Disable local BHes to prevent a dead-lock situation According to Eric's suggestion: Disable local BHes to prevent a dead-lock situation between sch_direct_xmit() (Soft_IRQ context) and bnx2x_tx_int (called by bnx2x_run_loopback() - syscall context), as both are taking a netif_tx_lock(). Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet Signed-off-by: Vladislav Zolotarov Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c index d02ffbdc9f0e..03012787de2f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c @@ -1499,8 +1499,15 @@ static int bnx2x_run_loopback(struct bnx2x *bp, int loopback_mode, u8 link_up) * updates that have been performed while interrupts were * disabled. */ - if (bp->common.int_block == INT_BLOCK_IGU) + if (bp->common.int_block == INT_BLOCK_IGU) { + /* Disable local BHes to prevent a dead-lock situation between + * sch_direct_xmit() and bnx2x_run_loopback() (calling + * bnx2x_tx_int()), as both are taking netif_tx_lock(). + */ + local_bh_disable(); bnx2x_tx_int(fp_tx); + local_bh_enable(); + } rx_idx = le16_to_cpu(*fp_rx->rx_cons_sb); if (rx_idx != rx_start_idx + num_pkts) -- 2.39.5