Commit e1210d12 authored by Eric Dumazet's avatar Eric Dumazet Committed by David S. Miller

bnx2x: Disable local BHes to prevent a dead-lock situation

According to Eric's suggestion:
Disable local BHes to prevent a dead-lock situation between sch_direct_xmit()
(Soft_IRQ context) and bnx2x_tx_int (called by bnx2x_run_loopback() - syscall
context), as both are taking a netif_tx_lock().
Signed-off-by: default avatarEric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVladislav Zolotarov <vladz@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarEilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 37a11845
......@@ -1499,8 +1499,15 @@ static int bnx2x_run_loopback(struct bnx2x *bp, int loopback_mode, u8 link_up)
* updates that have been performed while interrupts were
* disabled.
*/
if (bp->common.int_block == INT_BLOCK_IGU)
if (bp->common.int_block == INT_BLOCK_IGU) {
/* Disable local BHes to prevent a dead-lock situation between
* sch_direct_xmit() and bnx2x_run_loopback() (calling
* bnx2x_tx_int()), as both are taking netif_tx_lock().
*/
local_bh_disable();
bnx2x_tx_int(fp_tx);
local_bh_enable();
}
rx_idx = le16_to_cpu(*fp_rx->rx_cons_sb);
if (rx_idx != rx_start_idx + num_pkts)
......
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