3.6.11.2 stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Veaceslav Falico [ Upstream commit 3f315bef23075ea8a98a6fe4221a83b83456d970 ] __netpoll_cleanup() is called in netconsole_netdev_event() while holding a spinlock. Release/acquire the spinlock before/after it and restart the loop. Also, disable the netconsole completely, because we won't have chance after the restart of the loop, and might end up in a situation where nt->enabled == 1 and nt->np.dev == NULL. Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico Acked-by: Neil Horman Signed-off-by: David S. Miller Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt --- drivers/net/netconsole.c | 15 +++++++++------ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/netconsole.c b/drivers/net/netconsole.c index b332112..2524a69 100644 --- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c +++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c @@ -626,6 +626,7 @@ static int netconsole_netdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, goto done; spin_lock_irqsave(&target_list_lock, flags); +restart: list_for_each_entry(nt, &target_list, list) { netconsole_target_get(nt); if (nt->np.dev == dev) { @@ -638,15 +639,17 @@ static int netconsole_netdev_event(struct notifier_block *this, case NETDEV_UNREGISTER: /* * rtnl_lock already held + * we might sleep in __netpoll_cleanup() */ - if (nt->np.dev) { - __netpoll_cleanup(&nt->np); - dev_put(nt->np.dev); - nt->np.dev = NULL; - } + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&target_list_lock, flags); + __netpoll_cleanup(&nt->np); + spin_lock_irqsave(&target_list_lock, flags); + dev_put(nt->np.dev); + nt->np.dev = NULL; nt->enabled = 0; stopped = true; - break; + netconsole_target_put(nt); + goto restart; } } netconsole_target_put(nt); -- 1.7.10.4 -- 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/