Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 02 Nov 2008 08:46:05 -0500 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drivers/net/smc911x.c: Fix lockdep warning on xmit. |
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Will Newton wrote: >>From 0e3ec7f78e115533e4aca9ac067acbc33eb0a21f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > From: Will Newton <will.newton@gmail.com> > Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:52:36 +0000 > Subject: [PATCH] drivers/net/smc911x.c: Fix lockdep warning on xmit. > > dev_kfree_skb should not be called with irqs disabled, use dev_kfree_skb_irq > instead. The warning caused looks like this: > > ====================================================== > [ INFO: hard-safe -> hard-unsafe lock order detected ] > 2.6.28-rc1 #273 > ------------------------------------------------------ > swapper/0 [HC0[0]:SC1[2]:HE0:SE0] is trying to acquire: > (clock-AF_INET){-..+}, at: [<4015c17c>] _sock_def_write_space+0x28/0xd8 > > and this task is already holding: > (&lp->lock){++..}, at: [<4013f230>] _smc911x_hard_start_xmit+0x30/0x4b8 > which would create a new lock dependency: > (&lp->lock){++..} -> (clock-AF_INET){-..+} > > Signed-off-by: Will Newton <will.newton@gmail.com> > --- > drivers/net/smc911x.c | 2 +- > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/net/smc911x.c b/drivers/net/smc911x.c > index f59c777..5051554 100644 > --- a/drivers/net/smc911x.c > +++ b/drivers/net/smc911x.c > @@ -499,7 +499,7 @@ static void smc911x_hardware_send_pkt(struct > net_device *dev) > #else > SMC_PUSH_DATA(lp, buf, len); > dev->trans_start = jiffies; > - dev_kfree_skb(skb); > + dev_kfree_skb_irq(skb); > #endif > if (!lp->tx_throttle) { > netif_wake_queue(dev);
applied manually, your patch was corrupted
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