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authorArjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>2006-07-03 00:25:36 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-07-03 15:27:10 -0700
commitcd11acdd8542cb0c0fa7cd86590b1ba79d7e263a (patch)
tree0b3fd5ec340e05ea831fa24f46806350838bb296 /drivers/net/wireless
parenta5b5bb9a053a973c23b867738c074acb3e80c0a0 (diff)
[PATCH] lockdep: annotate hostap netdev ->xmit_lock
On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 15:45 -0700, Miles Lane wrote: > Okay, I rebuilt my kernel with your combo patch applied. > Then, I inserted my US Robotics USR2210 PCMCIA wifi card, > ran "pccardutil eject", popped out the card and then inserted > a Compaq iPaq wifi card. This triggered the following. > > [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] > ------------------------------------------------------- > syslogd/1886 is trying to acquire lock: > (&dev->queue_lock){-+..}, at: [<c11a50b5>] dev_queue_xmit+0x120/0x24b > > but task is already holding lock: > (&dev->_xmit_lock){-+..}, at: [<c11a5118>] dev_queue_xmit+0x183/0x24b > > which lock already depends on the new lock. ok this appears to be hostap playing games... it has 2 network devices for one piece of hardware and one calls the other via the networking layer; there is thankfully a natural ordering between the two, so just making the slave one a separate type ought to make this work. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/net/wireless')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_hw.c10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_hw.c b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_hw.c
index b764cfda6e8..dafaa5ff5aa 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_hw.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_hw.c
@@ -3095,6 +3095,14 @@ static void prism2_clear_set_tim_queue(local_info_t *local)
}
+/*
+ * HostAP uses two layers of net devices, where the inner
+ * layer gets called all the time from the outer layer.
+ * This is a natural nesting, which needs a split lock type.
+ */
+static struct lock_class_key hostap_netdev_xmit_lock_key;
+
+
static struct net_device *
prism2_init_local_data(struct prism2_helper_functions *funcs, int card_idx,
struct device *sdev)
@@ -3259,6 +3267,8 @@ while (0)
SET_NETDEV_DEV(dev, sdev);
if (ret >= 0)
ret = register_netdevice(dev);
+
+ lockdep_set_class(&dev->_xmit_lock, &hostap_netdev_xmit_lock_key);
rtnl_unlock();
if (ret < 0) {
printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: register netdevice failed!\n",