On Mon, 2018-01-22 at 12:27 -0500, tedheadster wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 18, 2017 at 11:57 PM, David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote:
> > From: Eric Dumazet <eric.duma...@gmail.com>
> > Date: Mon, 18 Sep 2017 13:03:43 -0700
> >
> > > From: Eric Dumazet <eduma...@google.com>
> > >
> > > It seems we have to be more careful in napi_complete_done()
> > > use. This patch is not a revert, as it seems we can
> > > avoid bug that Ville reported by moving the napi_complete_done()
> > > test in the spinlock section.
> > >
> > > Many thanks to Ville for detective work and all tests.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 617f01211baf ("8139too: use napi_complete_done()")
> > > Reported-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrj...@linux.intel.com>
> > > Tested-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrj...@linux.intel.com>
> >
> > Applied and queued up for -stable.
>
> Eric,
> sorry to bring up this old thread, but I had a question. Do we have
> to surround most usage of napi_complete_done() with a spinlock, or was
> this problem restricted to just the 8139too driver?
I am not aware of any other NIC driver having a problem there.
