From: Christian Riesch <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2012 16:35:25 +0200

> Under heavy load (flood ping) it is possible for the MDIO timeout to
> expire before the loop checks the GO bit again. This patch adds an
> additional check whether the operation was done before actually
> returning -ETIMEDOUT.
> 
> To reproduce this bug, flood ping the device, e.g., ping -f -l 1000
> After some time, a "timed out waiting for user access" warning
> may appear. And even worse, link may go down since the PHY reported a
> timeout.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Christian Riesch <[email protected]>
> Cc: <[email protected]>
> Cc: Cyril Chemparathy <[email protected]>

Applied.
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