From: Lino Sanfilippo <linosanfili...@gmx.de> Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2016 23:48:32 +0100
> The driver already uses its private lock for synchronization between xmit > and xmit completion handler making the additional use of the xmit_lock > unnecessary. > Furthermore the driver does not set NETIF_F_LLTX resulting in xmit to be > called with the xmit_lock held and then taking the private lock while xmit > completion handler does the reverse, first take the private lock, then the > xmit_lock. > Fix these issues by not taking the xmit_lock in the tx completion handler. > > Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo <linosanfili...@gmx.de> Yeah that could be a nasty deadlock, in fact. Applied, thanks.
