On Monday 03 September 2007, Larry Finger wrote:
> This patch fixes a problem with work queues during shutdown. The bug
> seems to be responsible for the boot-time crashes reported in
> http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8937.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> ---
> 
> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
> +++ linux-2.6/drivers/net/wireless/bcm43xx/bcm43xx_main.c
> @@ -3197,6 +3197,9 @@ static void bcm43xx_periodic_work_handle
>       unsigned long orig_trans_start = 0;
>  
>       mutex_lock(&bcm->mutex);
> +     /* keep from doing and rearming periodic work if shutting down */
> +     if (bcm43xx_status(bcm) == BCM43xx_STAT_UNINIT)
> +             goto unlock_mutex;
>       if (unlikely(bcm->periodic_state % 60 == 0)) {
>               /* Periodic work will take a long time, so we want it to
>                * be preemtible.
> @@ -3242,6 +3245,7 @@ static void bcm43xx_periodic_work_handle
>       mmiowb();
>       bcm->periodic_state++;
>       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&bcm->irq_lock, flags);
> +unlock_mutex:
>       mutex_unlock(&bcm->mutex);
>  }
>  
> @@ -3338,6 +3342,14 @@ static void bcm43xx_free_board(struct bc
>       bcm43xx_periodic_tasks_delete(bcm);
>  
>       mutex_lock(&(bcm)->mutex);
> +     bcm43xx_set_status(bcm, BCM43xx_STAT_UNINIT);
> +     mutex_unlock(&(bcm)->mutex);
> +
> +     /* next 2 steps must be unlocked, else they may deadlock */
> +     cancel_work_sync(&bcm->restart_work);
> +     cancel_delayed_work_sync(&bcm->periodic_work);
> +
> +     mutex_lock(&(bcm)->mutex);
>       bcm43xx_shutdown_all_wireless_cores(bcm);
>       bcm43xx_pctl_set_crystal(bcm, 0);
>       mutex_unlock(&(bcm)->mutex);
> @@ -4030,7 +4042,6 @@ static int bcm43xx_net_stop(struct net_d
>       err = bcm43xx_disable_interrupts_sync(bcm);
>       assert(!err);
>       bcm43xx_free_board(bcm);
> -     flush_scheduled_work();
>  
>       return 0;
>  }
> @@ -4165,6 +4176,7 @@ static void bcm43xx_chip_reset(struct wo
>       mutex_lock(&(bcm)->mutex);
>       if (bcm43xx_status(bcm) == BCM43xx_STAT_INITIALIZED) {
>               bcm43xx_periodic_tasks_delete(bcm);
> +             bcm43xx_set_status(bcm, BCM43xx_STAT_UNINIT);

No, don't touch that function here. select_wireless_core will take care
of setting the status correctly.
The rest of the patch is OK.

>               phy = bcm43xx_current_phy(bcm);
>               err = bcm43xx_select_wireless_core(bcm, phy->type);
>               if (!err)
> 
> 


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