bnx2x: Disable local BHes to prevent a dead-lock situation

According to Eric's suggestion:
Disable local BHes to prevent a dead-lock situation between sch_direct_xmit()
(Soft_IRQ context) and bnx2x_tx_int (called by bnx2x_run_loopback() - syscall
context), as both are taking a netif_tx_lock().

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Vladislav Zolotarov <vladz@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: Eilon Greenstein <eilong@broadcom.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c
index d02ffbdc9f0e..03012787de2f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c
+++ b/drivers/net/bnx2x/bnx2x_ethtool.c
@@ -1499,8 +1499,15 @@ static int bnx2x_run_loopback(struct bnx2x *bp, int loopback_mode, u8 link_up)
          * updates that have been performed while interrupts were
          * disabled.
          */
-        if (bp->common.int_block == INT_BLOCK_IGU)
+        if (bp->common.int_block == INT_BLOCK_IGU) {
+                /* Disable local BHes to prevent a dead-lock situation between
+                 * sch_direct_xmit() and bnx2x_run_loopback() (calling
+                 * bnx2x_tx_int()), as both are taking netif_tx_lock().
+                 */
+                local_bh_disable();
                 bnx2x_tx_int(fp_tx);
+                local_bh_enable();
+        }
 
         rx_idx = le16_to_cpu(*fp_rx->rx_cons_sb);
         if (rx_idx != rx_start_idx + num_pkts)