[Intel-wired-lan] [next PATCH S83-V5 3/9] i40evf: remove flush_scheduled_work call in i40evf_remove

Bowers, AndrewX andrewx.bowers at intel.com
Fri Dec 22 16:17:01 UTC 2017


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Intel-wired-lan [mailto:intel-wired-lan-bounces at osuosl.org] On
> Behalf Of Alice Michael
> Sent: Monday, December 18, 2017 2:16 AM
> To: Michael, Alice <alice.michael at intel.com>; intel-wired-
> lan at lists.osuosl.org
> Subject: [Intel-wired-lan] [next PATCH S83-V5 3/9] i40evf: remove
> flush_scheduled_work call in i40evf_remove
> 
> From: Sudheer Mogilappagari <sudheer.mogilappagari at intel.com>
> 
> flush_schedule_work blocks until completion of all scheduled work items in
> global work-queue. This can cause deadlock in some cases. i40evf_remove()
> cleans up necessary work items with cancel_delayed_work_sync and
> cancel_work_sync. This fix removes flush_schedule_work call inside
> i40evf_remove().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Sudheer Mogilappagari <sudheer.mogilappagari at intel.com>
> ---
>  drivers/net/ethernet/intel/i40evf/i40evf_main.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

Tested-by: Andrew Bowers <andrewx.bowers at intel.com>




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