Re: [patch] net, 8139too.c: fix netpoll deadlock

[Francois Romieu]

Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> :
> Ingo Molnar wrote:
[...]
> >fix deadlock in the 8139too driver: poll handlers should never forcibly 
> >enable local interrupts, because they might be used by netpoll/printk 
> >from IRQ context.
> 
> ACK
> 
> (I'll queue it, if Linus doesn't pick it up; please CC me in the future)

I have lived with the "NAPI ->poll() handler runs in BH irq enabled context"
rule for years. Is it definitely false/dead ?

If so at least 8139cp needs the same fix.

-- 
Ueimor
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