e1000e: Separate signaling for link check/link up
Lennart reported the following race condition: \ e1000_watchdog_task \ e1000e_has_link \ hw->mac.ops.check_for_link() === e1000e_check_for_copper_link /* link is up */ mac->get_link_status = false; /* interrupt */ \ e1000_msix_other hw->mac.get_link_status = true; link_active = !hw->mac.get_link_status /* link_active is false, wrongly */ This problem arises because the single flag get_link_status is used to signal two different states: link status needs checking and link status is down. Avoid the problem by using the return value of .check_for_link to signal the link status to e1000e_has_link(). Reported-by: Lennart Sorensen <lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Poirier <bpoirier@suse.com> Tested-by: Aaron Brown <aaron.f.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com>
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