e1000: fix occasional panic on unload

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Net drivers in general have an issue where timers fired
by mod_timer or work threads with schedule_work are running
outside of the rtnl_lock.

With no other lock protection these routines are vulnerable
to races with driver unload or reset paths.

The longer term solution to this might be a redesign with
safer locks being taken in the driver to guarantee no
reentrance, but for now a safe and effective fix is
to take the rtnl_lock in these routines.

Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com>
Tested-by: Jeff Pieper <jeffrey.e.pieper@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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Jesse Brandeburg 2010-09-22 18:22:42 +00:00 • committed by David S. Miller

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drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c

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