lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2020]   [Jun]   [23]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
SubjectRe: [PATCH RESEND] net/cisco: Fix a sleep-in-atomic-context bug in enic_init_affinity_hint()
From
From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Date: Tue, 23 Jun 2020 14:33:11 -0700 (PDT)

> Calling a NIC driver open function from a context holding a spinlock
> is very much the real problem, so many operations have to sleep and
> in face that ->ndo_open() method is defined as being allowed to sleep
> and that's why the core networking never invokes it with spinlocks
^^^^

I mean "without" of course. :-)

> held.

\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2020-06-24 00:41    [W:0.092 / U:0.724 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site