[ewg] [PATCH] ipiob: fix rtnl deadlock

[Olga Shern]

Thanks

-----Original Message-----
From: Vladimir Sokolovsky [mailto:vlad at mellanox.co.il] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2008 3:26 PM
To: Yosef Eitgin
Cc: Olga Shern; OF-EWG
Subject: Re: [ewg] [PATCH] ipiob: fix rtnl deadlock

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