[PATCH linux v2] net/ncsi: Fix possible deadlock caught with lockdep

[Joel Stanley]

On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 4:40 PM, OpenBMC Patches
<openbmc-patches at stwcx.xyz> wrote:
> From: Cyril Bur <cyrilbur at gmail.com>
>
> Bringing the interfaces down with ifdown -a directly after boot causes a
> lockdep warning. It appears that a network interrupt would result in an
> attempt to acquire that lock again.
>
> The solution is to soft disable interrupts.

Thanks. So we can boot with and without lockdep enabled and the
interface always comes up now?

Cheers,

Joel