2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Larry Finger commit 37b12dd2b07b4d7dc222a5f7f88b25cec532b2aa upstream. As reported by Rick Farina (sidhayn@gmail.com), removing the RTL8187 USB stick, or unloading the driver rtl8187 using rmmod will cause a kernel oops. There are at least two forms of the failure, (1) BUG: Scheduling while atomic, and (2) a fatal kernel page fault. This problem is reported in Bugzilla #14539. This problem does not occur for kernel 2.6.31, but does for 2.6.32-rc2, thus it is technically a regression; however, bisection did not locate any faulty patch. The fix was found by comparing the faulty code in rtl8187 with p54usb. My interpretation is that the handling of work queues in mac80211 changed enough to the LEDs to be unregistered before tasks on the work queues are cancelled. Previously, these actions could be done in either order. (Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski reports that the code is the same in 2.6.31, so this may be a candidate for 2.6.31.x. -- JWL) Signed-off-by: Larry Finger Reported-by: Rick Farina Tested-by: Rick Farina Signed-off-by: John W. Linville Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_leds.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_leds.c +++ b/drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_leds.c @@ -210,10 +210,10 @@ void rtl8187_leds_exit(struct ieee80211_ /* turn the LED off before exiting */ queue_delayed_work(dev->workqueue, &priv->led_off, 0); - cancel_delayed_work_sync(&priv->led_off); - cancel_delayed_work_sync(&priv->led_on); rtl8187_unregister_led(&priv->led_rx); rtl8187_unregister_led(&priv->led_tx); + cancel_delayed_work_sync(&priv->led_off); + cancel_delayed_work_sync(&priv->led_on); } #endif /* def CONFIG_RTL8187_LED */ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/