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Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2015 16:18:56 -0700 (PDT) From: David Miller <davem@...emloft.net> To: khoroshilov@...ras.ru Cc: samuel@...tiz.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, ldv-project@...uxtesting.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] irda: ali-ircc: Fix deadlock in ali_ircc_sir_change_speed() From: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@...ras.ru> Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2015 00:34:48 +0300 > ali_ircc_sir_change_speed() is always called with self->lock held, > so acquiring the lock inside it leads to unavoidable deadlock. > > Call graph: > ali_ircc_sir_change_speed() is called from ali_ircc_change_speed() > ali_ircc_fir_hard_xmit() under spin_lock_irqsave(&self->lock, flags); > ali_ircc_sir_hard_xmit() under spin_lock_irqsave(&self->lock, flags); > ali_ircc_net_ioctl() under spin_lock_irqsave(&self->lock, flags); > ali_ircc_dma_xmit_complete() > ali_ircc_fir_interrupt() > ali_ircc_interrupt() under spin_lock(&self->lock); > ali_ircc_sir_write_wakeup() > ali_ircc_sir_interrupt() > ali_ircc_interrupt() under spin_lock(&self->lock); > > The patch removes spin_lock/unlock from ali_ircc_sir_change_speed(). > > Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org). > > Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@...ras.ru> Looks good, applied, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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