Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 Jun 2019 09:10:55 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/2] net: stmmac: Fix possible deadlock when disabling EEE support | From | David Miller <> |
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From: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com> Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2019 11:23:21 +0100
> When stmmac_eee_init() is called to disable EEE support, then the timer > for EEE support is stopped and we return from the function. Prior to > stopping the timer, a mutex was acquired but in this case it is never > released and so could cause a deadlock. Fix this by releasing the mutex > prior to returning from stmmax_eee_init() when stopping the EEE timer. > > Fixes: 74371272f97f ("net: stmmac: Convert to phylink and remove phylib logic") > Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>
When targetting net-next for a set of changes, make this explicit and clear by saying "[PATCH net-next ...] ..." in your Subject lines in the future.
Applied.
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