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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c index d02ffbdc9f0e..03012787de2f 100644 --- a/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c @@ -1499,8 +1499,15 @@ static int bnx2x_run_loopback(struct bnx2x *bp, int loopback_mode, u8 link_up) * updates that have been performed while interrupts were * disabled. */ - if (bp->common.int_block == INT_BLOCK_IGU) + if (bp->common.int_block == INT_BLOCK_IGU) { + /* Disable local BHes to prevent a dead-lock situation between + * sch_direct_xmit() and bnx2x_run_loopback() (calling + * bnx2x_tx_int()), as both are taking netif_tx_lock(). + */ + local_bh_disable(); bnx2x_tx_int(fp_tx); + local_bh_enable(); + } rx_idx = le16_to_cpu(*fp_rx->rx_cons_sb); if (rx_idx != rx_start_idx + num_pkts) |