* [PATCH] b43: Don't cancel the restart workqueue in wireless_core_exit
@ 2007-09-09 11:55 Michael Buesch
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From: Michael Buesch @ 2007-09-09 11:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: John Linville; +Cc: Larry Finger, bcm43xx-dev, linux-wireless
The wq must be canceled later on rmmod. It's nonfatal, if
the wq runs on a device that's not started or down. It will
handle these cases.
But syncing in wireless_core_exit() will cause a deadlock with
the restart_work. (restart work cancels itself)
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Cc: Larry Finger <larry.finger@lwfinger.net>
Index: wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-dev.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c 2007-09-09 13:27:14.000000000 +0200
+++ wireless-dev/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c 2007-09-09 13:46:31.000000000 +0200
@@ -3317,7 +3317,6 @@ static void b43_imcfglo_timeouts_workaro
/* Locking: wl->mutex */
static void b43_wireless_core_exit(struct b43_wldev *dev)
{
- struct b43_wl *wl = dev->wl;
struct b43_phy *phy = &dev->phy;
B43_WARN_ON(b43_status(dev) > B43_STAT_INITIALIZED);
@@ -3325,12 +3324,6 @@ static void b43_wireless_core_exit(struc
return;
b43_set_status(dev, B43_STAT_UNINIT);
- mutex_unlock(&wl->mutex);
- /* Must unlock as it would otherwise deadlock. No races here.
- * Cancel possibly pending workqueues. */
- cancel_work_sync(&dev->restart_work);
- mutex_lock(&wl->mutex);
-
b43_rng_exit(dev->wl);
b43_pio_free(dev);
b43_dma_free(dev);
@@ -3811,6 +3804,7 @@ static void b43_one_core_detach(struct s
wldev = ssb_get_drvdata(dev);
wl = wldev->wl;
+ cancel_work_sync(&wldev->restart_work);
b43_debugfs_remove_device(wldev);
b43_wireless_core_detach(wldev);
list_del(&wldev->list);
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