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| author | Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> | 2006-07-03 00:25:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-07-03 15:27:10 -0700 |
| commit | cd11acdd8542cb0c0fa7cd86590b1ba79d7e263a (patch) | |
| tree | 0b3fd5ec340e05ea831fa24f46806350838bb296 /drivers/net/wireless/hostap | |
| parent | a5b5bb9a053a973c23b867738c074acb3e80c0a0 (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/hostap')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_hw.c | 10 |
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", |