[PATCH 2.6.34.y] hostap_cs: fix sleeping function called from invalid context

Stanislaw Gruszka sgruszka at redhat.com
Mon Jan 17 13:04:25 UTC 2011


commit 4e5518ca53be29c1ec3c00089c97bef36bfed515 upstream.

pcmcia_request_irq() and pcmcia_enable_device() are intended
to be called from process context (first function allocate memory
with GFP_KERNEL, second take a mutex). We can not take spin lock
and call them.

It's safe to move spin lock after pcmcia_enable_device() as we
still hold off IRQ until dev->base_addr is 0 and driver will
not proceed with interrupts when is not ready.

Patch resolves:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643758

Reported-and-tested-by: rbugz at biobind.com
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_cs.c |   14 +++-----------
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_cs.c b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_cs.c
index f33e18e..116b5c6 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_cs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_cs.c
@@ -638,12 +638,6 @@ static int prism2_config(struct pcmcia_device *link)
 	link->dev_node = &hw_priv->node;
 
 	/*
-	 * Make sure the IRQ handler cannot proceed until at least
-	 * dev->base_addr is initialized.
-	 */
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&local->irq_init_lock, flags);
-
-	/*
 	 * Allocate an interrupt line.  Note that this does not assign a
 	 * handler to the interrupt, unless the 'Handler' member of the
 	 * irq structure is initialized.
@@ -653,7 +647,7 @@ static int prism2_config(struct pcmcia_device *link)
 		link->irq.Handler = prism2_interrupt;
 		ret = pcmcia_request_irq(link, &link->irq);
 		if (ret)
-			goto failed_unlock;
+			goto failed;
 	}
 
 	/*
@@ -663,11 +657,11 @@ static int prism2_config(struct pcmcia_device *link)
 	 */
 	ret = pcmcia_request_configuration(link, &link->conf);
 	if (ret)
-		goto failed_unlock;
+		goto failed;
 
+	spin_lock_irqsave(&local->irq_init_lock, flags);
 	dev->irq = link->irq.AssignedIRQ;
 	dev->base_addr = link->io.BasePort1;
-
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&local->irq_init_lock, flags);
 
 	/* Finally, report what we've done */
@@ -698,8 +692,6 @@ static int prism2_config(struct pcmcia_device *link)
 	}
 	return ret;
 
- failed_unlock:
-	 spin_unlock_irqrestore(&local->irq_init_lock, flags);
  failed:
 	kfree(hw_priv);
 	prism2_release((u_long)link);
-- 
1.7.1



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