[ewg] [PATCH] ipiob: fix rtnl deadlock
Vladimir Sokolovsky
vlad at mellanox.co.il
Tue Aug 12 05:25:50 PDT 2008
Yossi Etigin wrote:
> This fixes bug #1114 in bugzilla, which is a deadlock between ipoib_stop
> and mcast_join_task.
>
> ipoib_stop is called with rtnl_lock, and flushes ipoib_workqueue.
> the flush operation might wait for mcast_join_task to finish, which
> in turn might wait for rtnl_lock.
>
> Signed-off-by: Yossi Etigin <yosefe at voltaire.com>
>
> --
>
Added to ofed_1_4/linux-2.6.git ofed_kernel
kernel_patches/fixes/ipoib_0400_fix_rtnl_deadlock.patch
Regards,
Vladimir
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