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Commit abe5fc42 authored by Heiner Kallweit's avatar Heiner Kallweit Committed by David S. Miller
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r8169: use RTNL to protect critical sections



Most relevant ops (open, close, ethtool ops) are protected with RTNL
lock by net core. Make sure that such ops can't be interrupted by
e.g. (runtime-)suspending by taking the RTNL lock in suspend ops
and the PCI error handler.

Signed-off-by: default avatarHeiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 567ca57f
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