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Diffstat (limited to 'sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c | 13 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c index 8f3e5e9d8bdb..e6de496bffbe 100644 --- a/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c +++ b/sound/pci/hda/hda_intel.c @@ -2166,7 +2166,20 @@ static void azx_remove(struct pci_dev *pci) /* cancel the pending probing work */ chip = card->private_data; hda = container_of(chip, struct hda_intel, chip); + /* FIXME: below is an ugly workaround. + * Both device_release_driver() and driver_probe_device() + * take *both* the device's and its parent's lock before + * calling the remove() and probe() callbacks. The codec + * probe takes the locks of both the codec itself and its + * parent, i.e. the PCI controller dev. Meanwhile, when + * the PCI controller is unbound, it takes its lock, too + * ==> ouch, a deadlock! + * As a workaround, we unlock temporarily here the controller + * device during cancel_work_sync() call. + */ + device_unlock(&pci->dev); cancel_work_sync(&hda->probe_work); + device_lock(&pci->dev); snd_card_free(card); } |