Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.26

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6.26: (1090 commits)
  [NET]: Fix and allocate less memory for ->priv'less netdevices
  [IPV6]: Fix dangling references on error in fib6_add().
  [NETLABEL]: Fix NULL deref in netlbl_unlabel_staticlist_gen() if ifindex not found
  [PKT_SCHED]: Fix datalen check in tcf_simp_init().
  [INET]: Uninline the __inet_inherit_port call.
  [INET]: Drop the inet_inherit_port() call.
  SCTP: Initialize partial_bytes_acked to 0, when all of the data is acked.
  [netdrvr] forcedeth: internal simplifications; changelog removal
  phylib: factor out get_phy_id from within get_phy_device
  PHY: add BCM5464 support to broadcom PHY driver
  cxgb3: Fix __must_check warning with dev_dbg.
  tc35815: Statistics cleanup
  natsemi: fix MMIO for PPC 44x platforms
  [TIPC]: Cleanup of TIPC reference table code
  [TIPC]: Optimized initialization of TIPC reference table
  [TIPC]: Remove inlining of reference table locking routines
  e1000: convert uint16_t style integers to u16
  ixgb: convert uint16_t style integers to u16
  sb1000.c: make const arrays static
  sb1000.c: stop inlining largish static functions
  ...

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c b/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
index a8fb439a4d03..7144c255ce54 100644
--- a/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
@@ -86,7 +86,24 @@ static struct pci_device_id netxen_pci_tbl[] __devinitdata = {
 
 MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, netxen_pci_tbl);
 
-struct workqueue_struct *netxen_workq;
+/*
+ * In netxen_nic_down(), we must wait for any pending callback requests into
+ * netxen_watchdog_task() to complete; eg otherwise the watchdog_timer could be
+ * reenabled right after it is deleted in netxen_nic_down().
+ * FLUSH_SCHEDULED_WORK()  does this synchronization.
+ *
+ * Normally, schedule_work()/flush_scheduled_work() could have worked, but
+ * netxen_nic_close() is invoked with kernel rtnl lock held. netif_carrier_off()
+ * call in netxen_nic_close() triggers a schedule_work(&linkwatch_work), and a
+ * subsequent call to flush_scheduled_work() in netxen_nic_down() would cause
+ * linkwatch_event() to be executed which also attempts to acquire the rtnl
+ * lock thus causing a deadlock.
+ */
+
+static struct workqueue_struct *netxen_workq;
+#define SCHEDULE_WORK(tp)	queue_work(netxen_workq, tp)
+#define FLUSH_SCHEDULED_WORK()	flush_workqueue(netxen_workq)
+
 static void netxen_watchdog(unsigned long);
 
 static void netxen_nic_update_cmd_producer(struct netxen_adapter *adapter,