3.12-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Josh Wu <[email protected]> commit a749d13acd8e079ed4c77a9456d842dc94af8f17 upstream. In the atmel driver probe function, the code shows like following: atmel_nand_probe(...) { ... err_nand_ioremap: platform_driver_unregister(&atmel_nand_nfc_driver); return res; } If no nand flash detected, the driver probe function will goto err_nand_ioremap label. Then platform_driver_unregister() will be called. It will get the lock of atmel_nand device since it is parent of nfc_device. The problem is the lock is already hold by atmel_nand_probe itself. So system will be in a dead lock. This patch just simply removed to platform_driver_unregister() call. When atmel_nand driver is quit the platform_driver_unregister() will be called in atmel_nand_remove(). [Brian: the NAND platform probe really has no business registering/unregistering another driver; this fixes the deadlock, but we should follow up the likely racy behavior here with a better architecture] Signed-off-by: Josh Wu <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Brian Norris <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- drivers/mtd/nand/atmel_nand.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/mtd/nand/atmel_nand.c +++ b/drivers/mtd/nand/atmel_nand.c @@ -2177,7 +2177,6 @@ err_no_card: if (host->dma_chan) dma_release_channel(host->dma_chan); err_nand_ioremap: - platform_driver_unregister(&atmel_nand_nfc_driver); return res; } -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
