[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] igb: Fix a deadlock in igb_sriov_reinit

Brown, Aaron F aaron.f.brown at intel.com
Tue Aug 11 02:06:54 UTC 2015


> From: netdev-owner at vger.kernel.org [mailto:netdev-owner at vger.kernel.org]
> On Behalf Of Jia-Ju Bai
> Sent: Sunday, August 02, 2015 8:36 PM
> To: Kirsher, Jeffrey T; Brandeburg, Jesse
> Cc: intel-wired-lan at lists.osuosl.org; netdev at vger.kernel.org; linux-
> kernel at vger.kernel.org; Jia-Ju Bai
> Subject: [PATCH] igb: Fix a deadlock in igb_sriov_reinit
> 
> When igb_init_interrupt_scheme in igb_sriov_reinit is failed, the lock
> acquired by rtnl_lock() is not released, which causes a deadlock.
> This patch adds rtnl_unlock() in error handling to fix it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1990 at 163.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/igb/igb_main.c |    1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown at intel.com>


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