From: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
To: netdev@vger.kernel.org, "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Subject: [PATCH 12/14] ipw2100: Fix deadlock detected by lockdep
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:38:52 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060821033852.GA5425@mail.intel.com> (raw)
Fix by removing dependency between priv->action_sem and rtnl semaphore.
Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
---
drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c | 5 +++--
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
fcf4f163e01e6c5128e578fdbe1e778bc16fa1c0
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c
index e955db4..5d5dab6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c
@@ -6254,13 +6254,14 @@ static int ipw2100_pci_init_one(struct p
* member to call a function that then just turns and calls ipw2100_up.
* net_dev->init is called after name allocation but before the
* notifier chain is called */
- mutex_lock(&priv->action_mutex);
err = register_netdev(dev);
if (err) {
printk(KERN_WARNING DRV_NAME
"Error calling register_netdev.\n");
- goto fail_unlock;
+ goto fail;
}
+
+ mutex_lock(&priv->action_mutex);
registered = 1;
IPW_DEBUG_INFO("%s: Bound to %s\n", dev->name, pci_name(pci_dev));
--
1.2.6
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