ACPI: Run fixed event device notifications in process context
Currently, notify callbacks for fixed button events are run from
interrupt context. That is not necessary and after commit 0bf6368ee8f2
(ACPI / button: Add ACPI Button event via netlink routine) it causes
netlink routines to be called from interrupt context which is not
correct.
Also, that is different from non-fixed device events (including
non-fixed button events) whose notify callbacks are all executed from
process context.
For the above reasons, make fixed button device notify callbacks run
in process context which will avoid the deadlock when using netlink
to report button events to user space.
Fixes: 0bf6368ee8f2 (ACPI / button: Add ACPI Button event via netlink routine)
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/21/606
Reported-by: Benjamin Block <bebl@mageta.org>
Reported-by: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
[rjw: Function names, subject and changelog.]
Cc: 3.15+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.15+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
diff --git a/drivers/acpi/scan.c b/drivers/acpi/scan.c
index fd17fe7..9a92989 100644
--- a/drivers/acpi/scan.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/scan.c
@@ -922,12 +922,17 @@
device->driver->ops.notify(device, event);
}
-static acpi_status acpi_device_notify_fixed(void *data)
+static void acpi_device_notify_fixed(void *data)
{
struct acpi_device *device = data;
/* Fixed hardware devices have no handles */
acpi_device_notify(NULL, ACPI_FIXED_HARDWARE_EVENT, device);
+}
+
+static acpi_status acpi_device_fixed_event(void *data)
+{
+ acpi_os_execute(OSL_NOTIFY_HANDLER, acpi_device_notify_fixed, data);
return AE_OK;
}
@@ -938,12 +943,12 @@
if (device->device_type == ACPI_BUS_TYPE_POWER_BUTTON)
status =
acpi_install_fixed_event_handler(ACPI_EVENT_POWER_BUTTON,
- acpi_device_notify_fixed,
+ acpi_device_fixed_event,
device);
else if (device->device_type == ACPI_BUS_TYPE_SLEEP_BUTTON)
status =
acpi_install_fixed_event_handler(ACPI_EVENT_SLEEP_BUTTON,
- acpi_device_notify_fixed,
+ acpi_device_fixed_event,
device);
else
status = acpi_install_notify_handler(device->handle,
@@ -960,10 +965,10 @@
{
if (device->device_type == ACPI_BUS_TYPE_POWER_BUTTON)
acpi_remove_fixed_event_handler(ACPI_EVENT_POWER_BUTTON,
- acpi_device_notify_fixed);
+ acpi_device_fixed_event);
else if (device->device_type == ACPI_BUS_TYPE_SLEEP_BUTTON)
acpi_remove_fixed_event_handler(ACPI_EVENT_SLEEP_BUTTON,
- acpi_device_notify_fixed);
+ acpi_device_fixed_event);
else
acpi_remove_notify_handler(device->handle, ACPI_DEVICE_NOTIFY,
acpi_device_notify);