Re: [PATCH] e1000: fix race condition while driver unload/reset using kref count

On Wed, 2011-03-02 at 10:46 -0800, prasanna.panchamukhi@riverbed.com
wrote:

This race conditions occurs with reentrant e1000_down(), which gets
called by multiple threads while driver unload or reset.
This patch fixes the race condition when one thread tries to destroy
the memory allocated for tx buffer_info, while another thread still
happen to access tx buffer_info.
This patch fixes the above race condition using kref count.

Signed-off-by: Prasanna S. Panchamukhi
[off-list ref]
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 drivers/net/e1000/e1000.h      |    2 +
 drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c |   41
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 2 files changed, 40 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) 

Thanks Prasanna!  I have added the patch to my e1000 queue of patches.