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authorFlorian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>2016-11-22 13:55:31 -0800
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2016-11-24 16:02:32 -0500
commit4b65246b427152fc7e8e1f673d3f0dc7582a89af (patch)
tree28220d54e14d9ea7026adcdf13628d4815aa93ce /Documentation
parentfab96ec86771a5815024651cc1356783c70f55b1 (diff)
ethtool: Protect {get, set}_phy_tunable with PHY device mutex
PHY drivers should be able to rely on the caller of {get,set}_tunable to have acquired the PHY device mutex, in order to both serialize against concurrent calls of these functions, but also against PHY state machine changes. All ethtool PHY-level functions do this, except {get,set}_tunable, so we make them consistent here as well. We need to update the Microsemi PHY driver in the same commit to avoid introducing either deadlocks, or lack of proper locking. Fixes: 968ad9da7e0e ("ethtool: Implements ETHTOOL_PHY_GTUNABLE/ETHTOOL_PHY_STUNABLE") Fixes: 310d9ad57ae0 ("net: phy: Add downshift get/set support in Microsemi PHYs driver") Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Andrew Lunn <andrew@lunn.ch> Reviewed-by: Allan W. Nielsen <allan.nielsen@microsemi.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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