USB deadlock in v2.5.67

David Mosberger
2003-04-18T01:50:13Z

So my 2.5.67 kernel was humming along nicely when I got the idea to
unplug a USB keyboard. Instant deadlock. The backtrace shows this:

Call Trace:
[<e0000000048c4260>] hcd_free_dev+0x140/0x240
[<e0000000048b96e0>] usb_release_dev+0x100/0x140
[<e000000004743420>] device_release+0x80/0xa0
[<e000000004697600>] kobject_cleanup+0x100/0x120
[<e0000000048c34d0>] urb_unlink+0x110/0x1a0
[<e0000000048c4390>] usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x30/0x1a0
[<e0000000048da730>] dl_done_list+0x230/0x2a0
[<e0000000048dbfd0>] ohci_irq+0x290/0x340
[<e0000000048c4580>] usb_hcd_irq+0x80/0x100
[<e000000004414e00>] handle_IRQ_event+0xa0/0x120
[<e0000000044155e0>] do_IRQ+0x360/0x460
[<e0000000044174b0>] ia64_handle_irq+0x70/0x140
[<e000000004411e40>] ia64_leave_kernel+0x0/0x240

<hcd_free_dev+0x140> translates into line 1249 in hcd.c, where it
does:

spin_lock_irqsave (&hcd_data_lock, flags);

The deadlock is pretty obvious: the same lock has already been
acquired urb_unlink(), 4 levels up in the call-chain.

Anybody have a fix for this?

--david