On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 5:55 PM, Benjamin Poirier <bpoir...@suse.com> wrote: > Alex reported the following race condition: > > /* link goes up... interrupt... schedule watchdog */ > \ e1000_watchdog_task > \ e1000e_has_link > \ hw->mac.ops.check_for_link() === > e1000e_check_for_copper_link > \ e1000e_phy_has_link_generic(..., &link) > link = true > > /* link goes down... interrupt */ > \ e1000_msix_other > hw->mac.get_link_status = > true > > /* link is up */ > mac->get_link_status = false > > link_active = true > /* link_active is true, wrongly, and stays so because > * get_link_status is false */ > > Avoid this problem by making sure that we don't set get_link_status = false > after having checked the link. > > It seems this problem has been present since the introduction of e1000e. > > Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/29/338 > Reported-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.du...@gmail.com> > Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoir...@suse.com>
Looks good. Thanks. Acked-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.du...@intel.com>
