[PATCH] bcm43xx: netlink deadlock fix
reported by Jure Repinc:
> > http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6773
> > checked out dmesg output and found the message
> >
> > ======================================================
> > [ BUG: hard-safe -> hard-unsafe lock order detected! ]
> > ------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > starting at line 660 of the dmesg.txt that I will attach.
The patch below should fix the deadlock, albeit I suspect it's not the
"right" fix; the right fix may well be to move the rx processing in bcm43xx
to softirq context. [it's debatable, ipw2200 hit this exact same bug; at
some point it's better to bite the bullet and move this to the common layer
as my patch below does]
Make the nl_table_lock irq-safe; it's taken for read in various netlink
functions, including functions that several wireless drivers (ipw2200,
bcm43xx) want to call from hardirq context.
The deadlock was found by the lock validator.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: jamal <hadi@cyberus.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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