From: Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net>
To: stable@kernel.org
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>,
Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>, Chris Snook <csnook@redhat.com>,
Jie Yang <jie.yang@atheros.com>,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jay Cliburn <jcliburn@gmail.com>,
nm127@freemail.hu, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: [PATCH] [stable 2.6.27.y] don't take the mdio_lock in atl1e_probe
Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 10:05:01 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081011100501.7ff818ce@osprey.hogchain.net> (raw)
From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Upstream commit: f382a0a8e9403c6d7f8b2cfa21e41fefb5d0c9bd
This fixes bug 11736.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=122367387219316&w=2
Lockdep warns about the mdio_lock taken with interrupts enabled then
later taken from interrupt context. Initially, I considered changing
these to spin_lock_irq/spin_unlock_irq, but then I looked at
atl1e_phy_init() and saw that it calls msleep(). Sleeping while
holding a spinlock is not allowed either.
In the probe path, we haven't registered the interrupt handler, so
it can't poke at this card yet. It's before we call register_netdev(),
so I don't think any other threads can reach this card either. If I'm
right, we don't need a spinlock at all.
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
---
Resending with correct -stable email address.
drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e_main.c | 2 --
1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e_main.c
b/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e_main.c index 7685b99..9b60352 100644
--- a/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/atl1e/atl1e_main.c
@@ -2390,9 +2390,7 @@ static int __devinit atl1e_probe(struct pci_dev
*pdev, }
/* Init GPHY as early as possible due to power saving issue */
- spin_lock(&adapter->mdio_lock);
atl1e_phy_init(&adapter->hw);
- spin_unlock(&adapter->mdio_lock);
/* reset the controller to
* put the device in a known good starting state */
err = atl1e_reset_hw(&adapter->hw);
--
1.5.5.1
next reply other threads:[~2008-10-11 15:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-11 15:05 Jay Cliburn [this message]
2008-10-11 18:08 ` [PATCH] [stable 2.6.27.y] don't take the mdio_lock in atl1e_probe David Miller
2008-10-15 22:15 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2008-10-15 22:41 ` David Miller
2008-10-15 22:47 ` Greg KH
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2008-10-11 14:55 Jay Cliburn
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