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authorAmit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com>2010-08-17 20:51:51 +0000
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2010-08-19 00:28:16 -0700
commit4be353d5169ef2477814b35fe46734a51dcecd09 (patch)
tree1981d2a73e355c552cab42deebe533083dda83e1 /drivers/net/netxen
parent0ac820eebe9008094040955d294ef7b33b418413 (diff)
netxen: fix inconsistent lock state
Spin lock rds_ring->lock is used in poll routine, so other users should use spin_lock_bh(). While posting rx buffers from netxen_nic_attach, rds_ring->lock is not required, so cleaning it instead of fixing it by spin_lock_bh(). Signed-off-by: Amit Kumar Salecha <amit.salecha@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/netxen')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c4
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c b/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c
index c865dda2adf1..cabae7bb1fc6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c
@@ -1805,8 +1805,6 @@ netxen_post_rx_buffers(struct netxen_adapter *adapter, u32 ringid,
netxen_ctx_msg msg = 0;
struct list_head *head;
- spin_lock(&rds_ring->lock);
-
producer = rds_ring->producer;
head = &rds_ring->free_list;
@@ -1853,8 +1851,6 @@ netxen_post_rx_buffers(struct netxen_adapter *adapter, u32 ringid,
NETXEN_RCV_PRODUCER_OFFSET), msg);
}
}
-
- spin_unlock(&rds_ring->lock);
}
static void