On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 7:14 PM, Oliver Neukum <oli...@neukum.org> wrote:
>
> Sorry, I misunderstood.

No problem, :-)

>
> Task A                                  Task B                          queue
>
> queue work
>                                                 request a reset
>                                                                               
>           allocate memory and block
>                                                 cancel the work
>                                                                               
>           shit happened

If I understand the case correctly, the above deadlock can be avoided
by canceling rx/tx URBs at the end of pre_reset() or usbnet_disconnect(),
then memory can still be reclaimed in queue context since rx/tx is still
workable. Right?


Thanks,
-- 
Ming Lei
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