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authorManish Chopra <manish.chopra@qlogic.com>2014-09-30 03:56:35 -0400
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2014-09-30 16:22:43 -0400
commit0d36882013e61dc47aa835c4ec98b1fe776c9db8 (patch)
treed2bdf6d34aa1dae6b122364bdbd2b6a4e84e4bc9 /drivers
parent705f1c869d577c8055736dd02501f26a2507dd5b (diff)
downloadlinux-0d36882013e61dc47aa835c4ec98b1fe776c9db8.tar.gz
netxen: Fix BUG "sleeping function called from invalid context"
o __netxen_nic_down() function might sleep while holding spinlock_t(tx_clean_lock).
  Acquire this lock for only releasing TX buffers instead of taking it
  for whole down path.

Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <umgwanakikbuti@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Manish Chopra <manish.chopra@qlogic.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c2
-rw-r--r--drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c2
2 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c
index 32058614151a..ae4ec7b3bfd3 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c
@@ -135,6 +135,7 @@ void netxen_release_tx_buffers(struct netxen_adapter *adapter)
 	int i, j;
 	struct nx_host_tx_ring *tx_ring = adapter->tx_ring;
 
+	spin_lock(&adapter->tx_clean_lock);
 	cmd_buf = tx_ring->cmd_buf_arr;
 	for (i = 0; i < tx_ring->num_desc; i++) {
 		buffrag = cmd_buf->frag_array;
@@ -158,6 +159,7 @@ void netxen_release_tx_buffers(struct netxen_adapter *adapter)
 		}
 		cmd_buf++;
 	}
+	spin_unlock(&adapter->tx_clean_lock);
 }
 
 void netxen_free_sw_resources(struct netxen_adapter *adapter)
diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
index 1159031f885b..5ec5a2b0e989 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/qlogic/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c
@@ -1186,7 +1186,6 @@ __netxen_nic_down(struct netxen_adapter *adapter, struct net_device *netdev)
 		return;
 
 	smp_mb();
-	spin_lock(&adapter->tx_clean_lock);
 	netif_carrier_off(netdev);
 	netif_tx_disable(netdev);
 
@@ -1204,7 +1203,6 @@ __netxen_nic_down(struct netxen_adapter *adapter, struct net_device *netdev)
 	netxen_napi_disable(adapter);
 
 	netxen_release_tx_buffers(adapter);
-	spin_unlock(&adapter->tx_clean_lock);
 }
 
 /* Usage: During suspend and firmware recovery module */