ath9k: Fix a locking related issue.
Spin_lock has been tried to be acquired twice from ath9k_tasklet
to ath_reset which resulted in a machine freeze.
Signed-off-by: Vivek Natarajan <vnatarajan@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
index 10a3dbe..d211aa7 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/xmit.c
@@ -563,8 +563,11 @@
rcu_read_unlock();
- if (needreset)
+ if (needreset) {
+ spin_unlock_bh(&sc->sc_pcu_lock);
ath_reset(sc, false);
+ spin_lock_bh(&sc->sc_pcu_lock);
+ }
}
static u32 ath_lookup_rate(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath_buf *bf,