Re: [PATCH 1/2 V2] kaweth: Fix locking to be SMP-safe

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Tue Mar 31 2009 - 18:09:31 EST


Am Dienstag 31 März 2009 20:45:49 schrieb Larry Finger:

> @@ -796,7 +799,7 @@ static int kaweth_start_xmit(struct sk_b

> @@ -848,7 +851,7 @@ skip:
> net->trans_start = jiffies;
> }
>
> - spin_unlock(&kaweth->device_lock);
> + spin_unlock_irq(&kaweth->device_lock);

Here you enable interrupts. Are you sure ndo_start_xmit is never
called with interrupts disabled?

Regards
Oliver

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