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SubjectRe: [RFC,PATCH 3/4] Change synchronize_kernel to _rcu and _sched
Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> :
> [Jeff added to cc list - it's a network driver question]
[...]
> I haven't read the whole driver, but what about
> spin_unlock_wait(&dev->xmit_lock);
> ?

The race here is a dev->close() against dev->hard_start_xmit() one where
dev->hard_start_xmit() does not do any locking at all.

(so far, so good...)

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