[Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH] igb: reinit_locked() should be called with rtnl_lock

Kirsher, Jeffrey T jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com
Wed Jul 1 01:37:39 UTC 2020


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Francesco Ruggeri <fruggeri at arista.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 29, 2020 21:51
> To: Jakub Kicinski <kuba at kernel.org>
> Cc: open list <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org>; netdev
> <netdev at vger.kernel.org>; intel-wired-lan at lists.osuosl.org; David Miller
> <davem at davemloft.net>; Kirsher, Jeffrey T <jeffrey.t.kirsher at intel.com>
> Subject: Re: [PATCH] igb: reinit_locked() should be called with rtnl_lock
> 
> > Would you mind adding a fixes tag here? Probably:
> >
> > Fixes: 9d5c824399de ("igb: PCI-Express 82575 Gigabit Ethernet driver")
> 
> That seems to be the commit that introduced the driver in 2.6.25.
> I am not familiar with the history of the driver to tell if this was a day 1
> problem or if it became an issue later.
> 
> >
> > And as a matter of fact it looks like e1000e and e1000 have the same
> > bug :/ Would you mind checking all Intel driver producing matches for
> > all the affected ones?
> 
> Do you mean identify all Intel drivers that may have the same issue?
> 

Do not worry about the other Intel drivers, I have our developers looking at each of our drivers for the locking issue.

@David Miller - I am picking up this patch


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