From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753570Ab3LQTqS (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Dec 2013 14:46:18 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:48443 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752921Ab3LQTqQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Dec 2013 14:46:16 -0500 Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 14:46:14 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20131217.144614.1217520884557723259.davem@davemloft.net> To: jasowang@redhat.com Cc: kys@microsoft.com, haiyangz@microsoft.com, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH net] netvsc: don't flush peers notifying work during setting mtu From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1386926487-30822-1-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com> References: <1386926487-30822-1-git-send-email-jasowang@redhat.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.1 (shards.monkeyblade.net [0.0.0.0]); Tue, 17 Dec 2013 11:46:15 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Jason Wang Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2013 17:21:27 +0800 > There's a possible deadlock if we flush the peers notifying work during setting > mtu: ... > Reported-by: Yaju Cao > Tested-by: Yaju Cao > Cc: K. Y. Srinivasan > Cc: Haiyang Zhang > Signed-off-by: Jason Wang > --- > The patch is needed for stable. Applied and queued up for -stable, thanks Jason.