The driver already uses its private lock for synchronization between xmit and xmit completion handler making the additional use of the xmit_lock unnecessary. Furthermore the driver does not set NETIF_F_LLTX resulting in xmit to be called with the xmit_lock held and then taking the private lock while xmit completion handler does the reverse, first take the private lock, then the xmit_lock. Fix these issues by not taking the xmit_lock in the tx completion handler.
Signed-off-by: Lino Sanfilippo <linosanfili...@gmx.de> --- drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) Please note that this is only compile tested since I do not have the concerning hardware. diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c index 16c4163..cddc532 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/altera/altera_tse_main.c @@ -463,7 +463,6 @@ static int tse_tx_complete(struct altera_tse_private *priv) if (unlikely(netif_queue_stopped(priv->dev) && tse_tx_avail(priv) > TSE_TX_THRESH(priv))) { - netif_tx_lock(priv->dev); if (netif_queue_stopped(priv->dev) && tse_tx_avail(priv) > TSE_TX_THRESH(priv)) { if (netif_msg_tx_done(priv)) @@ -471,7 +470,6 @@ static int tse_tx_complete(struct altera_tse_private *priv) __func__); netif_wake_queue(priv->dev); } - netif_tx_unlock(priv->dev); } spin_unlock(&priv->tx_lock); -- 2.7.4