Thomas Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> When transmit fails with NETDEV_TX_LOCKED the skb is requeued
> to dev->qdisc again. The dev->qdisc pointer is protected by
> the queue lock which needs to be dropped when attempting to
> transmit and acquired again before requeing. The problem is
> that qdisc_restart() fetches the dev->qdisc pointer once and
> stores it in the `q' variable which is invalidated when
> dropping the queue_lock, therefore the variable needs to be
> refreshed before requeueing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Graf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

I agree, good catch Thomas.

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