From: françois romieu Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2011 20:30:52 +0000 (+0000) Subject: r8169: fix Rx index race between FIFO overflow recovery and NAPI handler. X-Git-Tag: v3.2-rc5~38^2~4 X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=c7c2c39be8ed4e503e987151f4599455060e219a;p=pandora-kernel.git r8169: fix Rx index race between FIFO overflow recovery and NAPI handler. Since 92fc43b4159b518f5baae57301f26d770b0834c9, rtl8169_tx_timeout ends up resetting Rx and Tx indexes and thus racing with the NAPI handler via -> rtl8169_hw_reset -> rtl_hw_reset -> rtl8169_init_ring_indexes What about returning to the original state ? rtl_hw_reset is only used by rtl8169_hw_reset and rtl8169_init_one. The latter does not need rtl8169_init_ring_indexes because the indexes still contain their original values from the newly allocated network device private data area (i.e. 0). rtl8169_hw_reset is used by: 1. rtl8169_down Helper for rtl8169_close. rtl8169_open explicitely inits the indexes anyway. 2. rtl8169_pcierr_interrupt Indexes are set by rtl8169_reinit_task. 3. rtl8169_interrupt rtl8169_hw_reset is needed when the device goes down. See 1. 4. rtl_shutdown System shutdown handler. Indexes are irrelevant. 5. rtl8169_reset_task Indexes must be set before rtl_hw_start is called. 6. rtl8169_tx_timeout Indexes should not be set. This is the job of rtl8169_reset_task anyway. The removal of rtl8169_hw_reset in rtl8169_tx_timeout and its move in rtl8169_reset_task do not change the analysis. Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu Cc: hayeswang Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- Reading git-diff-tree failed