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Change History

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

net: fec: remove .ndo_poll_controller to avoid deadlocks

There is a deadlock issue found in sungem driver, please refer to the
commit ac0a230f719b ("eth: sungem: remove .ndo_poll_controller to avoid
deadlocks"). The root cause of the issue is that netpoll is in atomic
context and disable_irq() is called by .ndo_poll_controller interface
of sungem driver, however, disable_irq() might sleep. After analyzing
the implementation of

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/87bcbc9b7e0b43a69d44efa5f32f11e32d08fa6f [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/accdd6b912c4219b8e056d1f1ad2e85bc66ee243 [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/c2e0c58b25a0a0c37ec643255558c5af4450c9f5 [No types assigned]

kernel.org https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d38625f71950e79e254515c5fc585552dad4b33e [No types assigned]