From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: John Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] b43: Fix controller restart crash
Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 16:32:16 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200805221632.17243.mb@bu3sch.de> (raw)
This fixes a kernel crash on rmmod, in the case where the controller
was restarted before doing the rmmod.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
---
John, this is a bugfix for 2.6.26
Index: wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-testing.orig/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c 2008-05-20 01:05:04.000000000 +0200
+++ wireless-testing/drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c 2008-05-22 16:23:03.000000000 +0200
@@ -4362,13 +4362,15 @@ static void b43_chip_reset(struct work_s
err = b43_wireless_core_start(dev);
if (err) {
b43_wireless_core_exit(dev);
goto out;
}
}
- out:
+out:
+ if (err)
+ wl->current_dev = NULL; /* Failed to init the dev. */
mutex_unlock(&wl->mutex);
if (err)
b43err(wl, "Controller restart FAILED\n");
else
b43info(wl, "Controller restarted\n");
}
@@ -4503,15 +4505,17 @@ err_powerdown:
static void b43_one_core_detach(struct ssb_device *dev)
{
struct b43_wldev *wldev;
struct b43_wl *wl;
+ /* Do not cancel ieee80211-workqueue based work here.
+ * See comment in b43_remove(). */
+
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);
wl->nr_devs--;
ssb_set_drvdata(dev, NULL);
kfree(wldev);
@@ -4690,12 +4694,16 @@ static int b43_probe(struct ssb_device *
static void b43_remove(struct ssb_device *dev)
{
struct b43_wl *wl = ssb_get_devtypedata(dev);
struct b43_wldev *wldev = ssb_get_drvdata(dev);
+ /* We must cancel any work here before unregistering from ieee80211,
+ * as the ieee80211 unreg will destroy the workqueue. */
+ cancel_work_sync(&wldev->restart_work);
+
B43_WARN_ON(!wl);
if (wl->current_dev == wldev)
ieee80211_unregister_hw(wl->hw);
b43_one_core_detach(dev);
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