Merge branch 'next' into for-linus

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c
index e037c7494fd..4174b4b2324 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/rtas_flash.c
@@ -568,6 +568,12 @@ static void rtas_flash_firmware(int reboot_type)
 	}
 
 	/*
+	 * Just before starting the firmware flash, cancel the event scan work
+	 * to avoid any soft lockup issues.
+	 */
+	rtas_cancel_event_scan();
+
+	/*
 	 * NOTE: the "first" block must be under 4GB, so we create
 	 * an entry with no data blocks in the reserved buffer in
 	 * the kernel data segment.