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    IB/ipoib: Make the carrier_on_task race aware · 894021a7
    Doug Ledford authored
    We blindly assume that we can just take the rtnl lock and that will
    prevent races with downing this interface.  Unfortunately, that's not
    the case.  In ipoib_mcast_stop_thread() we will call flush_workqueue()
    in an attempt to clear out all remaining instances of ipoib_join_task.
    But, since this task is put on the same workqueue as the join task,
    the flush_workqueue waits on this thread too.  But this thread is
    deadlocked on the rtnl lock.  The better thing here is to use trylock
    and loop on that until we either get the lock or we see that
    FLAG_OPER_UP has been cleared, in which case we don't need to do
    anything anyway and we just return.
    
    While investigating which flag should be used, FLAG_ADMIN_UP or
    FLAG_OPER_UP, it was determined that FLAG_OPER_UP was the more
    appropriate flag to use.  However, there was a mix of these two flags in
    use in the existing code.  So while we check for that flag here as part
    of this race fix, also cleanup the two places that had used the less
    appropriate flag for their tests.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDoug Ledford <dledford@redhat.com>
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