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| author | Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> | 2010-01-18 08:43:39 +0100 |
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| committer | Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> | 2010-02-17 17:48:28 +0100 |
| commit | c3bfc96ef7366aa996fb8286a36f3333a3b4ff25 (patch) | |
| tree | 6f1430068891518bfe8c72b835783bb8302429cc /drivers/pcmcia | |
| parent | aa584ca4cdd8db370a524c61fd3ca408303281e9 (diff) | |
pcmcia: avoid sysfs-related lockup for cardbus
In cb_free(), we remove some sysfs files -- other sysfs files might
grab ops_mutex, so we cannot hold it while removing sysfs files. This
fixes http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/17/88 .
Tested-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/pcmcia')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/pcmcia/cs.c | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c b/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c index d529e02c2d54..9a49c394f04f 100644 --- a/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c +++ b/drivers/pcmcia/cs.c @@ -400,10 +400,19 @@ static void socket_shutdown(struct pcmcia_socket *s) s->lock_count = 0; kfree(s->fake_cis); s->fake_cis = NULL; + s->functions = 0; + + /* From here on we can be sure that only we (that is, the + * pccardd thread) accesses this socket, and all (16-bit) + * PCMCIA interactions are gone. Therefore, release + * ops_mutex so that we don't get a sysfs-related lockdep + * warning. + */ + mutex_unlock(&s->ops_mutex); + #ifdef CONFIG_CARDBUS cb_free(s); #endif - s->functions = 0; /* give socket some time to power down */ msleep(100); @@ -415,7 +424,6 @@ static void socket_shutdown(struct pcmcia_socket *s) } s->state &= ~SOCKET_INUSE; - mutex_unlock(&s->ops_mutex); } static int socket_setup(struct pcmcia_socket *skt, int initial_delay) |