From: Francois Romieu flush_scheduled_work() in net_device->close has a slight tendency to deadlock with tasks on the workqueue that hold RTNL. rtl8169_close/down simply need the recovery tasks to not meddle with the hardware while the device is going down. Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/net/r8169.c | 25 ++++++++++++++++++------- 1 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/net/r8169.c~r8169-rtnl-and-flush_scheduled_work-deadlock drivers/net/r8169.c --- a/drivers/net/r8169.c~r8169-rtnl-and-flush_scheduled_work-deadlock +++ a/drivers/net/r8169.c @@ -1733,6 +1733,8 @@ rtl8169_remove_one(struct pci_dev *pdev) assert(dev != NULL); assert(tp != NULL); + flush_scheduled_work(); + unregister_netdev(dev); rtl8169_release_board(pdev, dev, tp->mmio_addr); pci_set_drvdata(pdev, NULL); @@ -2161,10 +2163,13 @@ static void rtl8169_reinit_task(struct w struct net_device *dev = tp->dev; int ret; - if (netif_running(dev)) { - rtl8169_wait_for_quiescence(dev); - rtl8169_close(dev); - } + rtnl_lock(); + + if (!netif_running(dev)) + goto out_unlock; + + rtl8169_wait_for_quiescence(dev); + rtl8169_close(dev); ret = rtl8169_open(dev); if (unlikely(ret < 0)) { @@ -2179,6 +2184,9 @@ static void rtl8169_reinit_task(struct w } rtl8169_schedule_work(dev, rtl8169_reinit_task); } + +out_unlock: + rtnl_unlock(); } static void rtl8169_reset_task(struct work_struct *work) @@ -2187,8 +2195,10 @@ static void rtl8169_reset_task(struct wo container_of(work, struct rtl8169_private, task.work); struct net_device *dev = tp->dev; + rtnl_lock(); + if (!netif_running(dev)) - return; + goto out_unlock; rtl8169_wait_for_quiescence(dev); @@ -2210,6 +2220,9 @@ static void rtl8169_reset_task(struct wo } rtl8169_schedule_work(dev, rtl8169_reset_task); } + +out_unlock: + rtnl_unlock(); } static void rtl8169_tx_timeout(struct net_device *dev) @@ -2722,8 +2735,6 @@ static void rtl8169_down(struct net_devi netif_stop_queue(dev); - flush_scheduled_work(); - core_down: spin_lock_irq(&tp->lock); _