From: Karsten Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

In bond_alb_monitor the bond->curr_slave_lock write lock is taken
and then dev_set_promiscuity maybe called which can take some time,
depending on the network HW. If a network IRQ for this card come in
the softirq handler maybe try to deliver more packets which end up in
a request to the read lock of bond->curr_slave_lock -> deadlock.
This issue was found by a test lab during network stress tests, this patch
disable the softirq handler for this case and solved the issue.

Signed-off-by: Karsten Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Acked-by: Jay Vosburgh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

---

 drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c |    4 ++--
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

921ada40bf96d7dc9c4258821af3d4616fb3cbae
diff --git a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c
index e83bc82..3292316 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bonding/bond_alb.c
@@ -1433,7 +1433,7 @@ void bond_alb_monitor(struct bonding *bo
                 * write lock to protect from other code that also
                 * sets the promiscuity.
                 */
-               write_lock(&bond->curr_slave_lock);
+               write_lock_bh(&bond->curr_slave_lock);
 
                if (bond_info->primary_is_promisc &&
                    (++bond_info->rlb_promisc_timeout_counter >= 
RLB_PROMISC_TIMEOUT)) {
@@ -1448,7 +1448,7 @@ void bond_alb_monitor(struct bonding *bo
                        bond_info->primary_is_promisc = 0;
                }
 
-               write_unlock(&bond->curr_slave_lock);
+               write_unlock_bh(&bond->curr_slave_lock);
 
                if (bond_info->rlb_rebalance) {
                        bond_info->rlb_rebalance = 0;


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