[PATCH] net: ethernet: mediatek: fixed deadlock captured by lockdep
David Miller
davem at davemloft.net
Tue Jul 4 01:43:57 PDT 2017
From: <sean.wang at mediatek.com>
Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2017 11:17:36 +0800
> From: Sean Wang <sean.wang at mediatek.com>
>
> Lockdep found an inconsistent lock state when mtk_get_stats64 is called
> in user context while NAPI updates MAC statistics in softirq.
>
> Use spin_trylock_bh/spin_unlock_bh fix following lockdep warning.
...
> Signed-off-by: Sean Wang <sean.wang at mediatek.com>
Good catch, applied, thanks.
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