bnx2x: Disable local BHes to prevent a dead-lock situation
According to Eric's suggestion:
Disable local BHes to prevent a dead-lock situation between sch_direct_xmit()
(Soft_IRQ context) and bnx2x_tx_int (called by bnx2x_run_loopback() - syscall
context), as both are taking a netif_tx_lock().
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Zolotarov <vladz@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c
index d02ffbd..0301278 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c
@@ -1499,8 +1499,15 @@
* 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)