Re: [PATCH 1/1] driver/net: add missing rtnl lock/unlock for benet

From: Li, ZhenHua
Date: Wed Apr 16 2014 - 03:10:44 EST


Hi David,
I have sent out another patch for the fix.

Thanks
ZhenHua
On 04/16/2014 02:30 PM, Li, ZhenHua wrote:
Hi David,

I think you are right. I checked other NIC drivers, found some of them
call rtnl_lock and rtnl_unlock around netif_device_detach and attach
functions, while some drivers did not.

I will create a new patch in generic way to fix this.

Regards
ZhenHua
On 04/16/2014 03:09 AM, David Miller wrote:
From: "Li, Zhen-Hua" <zhen-hual@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2014 14:45:52 +0800

From: "Li, Zhen-Hua" <zhen-hual@xxxxxx>

In benet driver, netif_device_detach and netif_device_attach should be
called between rtnl_lock and rtnl_unlock.

Signed-off-by: Li, Zhen-Hua <zhen-hual@xxxxxx>

This absolutely does not look like a driver specific issue, therefore
I do not want you to make such locking context adjustments only in
your driver.

Do it somewhere generic so that every driver gets the fix, not just
your driver.



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