From 068c6e98bc7ec4419299b38cd40be26ebf4bdeda Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Neil Horman Date: Mon, 26 Jun 2006 00:04:27 -0700 Subject: [NET] netpoll: break recursive loop in netpoll rx path The netpoll system currently has a rx to tx path via: netpoll_rx __netpoll_rx arp_reply netpoll_send_skb dev->hard_start_tx This rx->tx loop places network drivers at risk of inadvertently causing a deadlock or BUG halt by recursively trying to acquire a spinlock that is used in both their rx and tx paths (this problem was origionally reported to me in the 3c59x driver, which shares a spinlock between the boomerang_interrupt and boomerang_start_xmit routines). This patch breaks this loop, by queueing arp frames, so that they can be responded to after all receive operations have been completed. Tested by myself and the reported with successful results. Specifically it was tested with netdump. Heres the BZ with details: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=194055 Signed-off-by: Neil Horman Acked-by: Matt Mackall Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- include/linux/netpoll.h | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'include/linux/netpoll.h') diff --git a/include/linux/netpoll.h b/include/linux/netpoll.h index ca5a8733000..1efe60c5c00 100644 --- a/include/linux/netpoll.h +++ b/include/linux/netpoll.h @@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ struct netpoll_info { int rx_flags; spinlock_t rx_lock; struct netpoll *rx_np; /* netpoll that registered an rx_hook */ + struct sk_buff_head arp_tx; /* list of arp requests to reply to */ }; void netpoll_poll(struct netpoll *np); -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2