From bfa8ab47415a87c6c93a9e54e16f2f8cc6de79af Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Yan Burman Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 03:46:55 +0000 Subject: net/mlx4_en: Fix race when setting the device MAC address Remove unnecessary use of workqueue for the device MAC address setting flow, and fix a race when setting MAC address which was introduced by commit c07cb4b0a "net/mlx4_en: Manage hash of MAC addresses per port" The race happened when mlx4_en_replace_mac was being executed in parallel with a successive call to ndo_set_mac_address, e.g witn an A/B/A MAC setting configuration test, the third set fails. With this change we also properly report an error if set MAC fails. Signed-off-by: Yan Burman Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz Signed-off-by: David S. Miller --- drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h') diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h index c313d7e..f710b7c 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/mellanox/mlx4/mlx4_en.h @@ -509,7 +509,6 @@ struct mlx4_en_priv { struct mlx4_en_cq rx_cq[MAX_RX_RINGS]; struct mlx4_qp drop_qp; struct work_struct rx_mode_task; - struct work_struct mac_task; struct work_struct watchdog_task; struct work_struct linkstate_task; struct delayed_work stats_task; -- cgit v1.1