Manual code check. The similar fixes are present in almost all drivers, f.e. tg3 one. I have an unrelated deadlock with rtnl.

Regards,
    Den

Valerie Henson wrote:
(No longer maintainer, btw.)

What situation have you tested this under?  Thanks,

-VAL

On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 11:49:08AM +0400, Denis V. Lunev wrote:
Calling flush_scheduled_work() may deadlock if called under rtnl_lock
(from dev->stop) as linkwatch_event() may be on the workqueue and it will try
to get the rtnl_lock

Signed-off-by: Denis V. Lunev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---

 tulip_core.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- ./drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c.tulip      2007-07-16 12:54:29.000000000 
+0400
+++ ./drivers/net/tulip/tulip_core.c    2007-07-23 19:06:24.000000000 +0400
@@ -726,8 +726,6 @@ static void tulip_down (struct net_devic
        void __iomem *ioaddr = tp->base_addr;
        unsigned long flags;
- flush_scheduled_work();
-
        del_timer_sync (&tp->timer);
 #ifdef CONFIG_TULIP_NAPI
        del_timer_sync (&tp->oom_timer);
@@ -1788,6 +1786,8 @@ static void __devexit tulip_remove_one (
        if (!dev)
                return;
+ flush_scheduled_work();
+
        tp = netdev_priv(dev);
        unregister_netdev(dev);
        pci_free_consistent (pdev,
-
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