This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
hostap_cs: fix sleeping function called from invalid context
to the 2.6.37-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
hostap_cs-fix-sleeping-function-called-from-invalid-context.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.37 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 4e5518ca53be29c1ec3c00089c97bef36bfed515 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2011 12:56:05 +0100
Subject: hostap_cs: fix sleeping function called from invalid context
From: Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]>
commit 4e5518ca53be29c1ec3c00089c97bef36bfed515 upstream.
pcmcia_request_irq() and pcmcia_enable_device() are intended
to be called from process context (first function allocate memory
with GFP_KERNEL, second take a mutex). We can not take spin lock
and call them.
It's safe to move spin lock after pcmcia_enable_device() as we
still hold off IRQ until dev->base_addr is 0 and driver will
not proceed with interrupts when is not ready.
Patch resolves:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=643758
Reported-and-tested-by: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_cs.c | 15 ++++++---------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_cs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_cs.c
@@ -518,22 +518,21 @@ static int prism2_config(struct pcmcia_d
hw_priv->link = link;
/*
- * Make sure the IRQ handler cannot proceed until at least
- * dev->base_addr is initialized.
+ * We enable IRQ here, but IRQ handler will not proceed
+ * until dev->base_addr is set below. This protect us from
+ * receive interrupts when driver is not initialized.
*/
- spin_lock_irqsave(&local->irq_init_lock, flags);
-
ret = pcmcia_request_irq(link, prism2_interrupt);
if (ret)
- goto failed_unlock;
+ goto failed;
ret = pcmcia_enable_device(link);
if (ret)
- goto failed_unlock;
+ goto failed;
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&local->irq_init_lock, flags);
dev->irq = link->irq;
dev->base_addr = link->resource[0]->start;
-
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&local->irq_init_lock, flags);
local->shutdown = 0;
@@ -546,8 +545,6 @@ static int prism2_config(struct pcmcia_d
return ret;
- failed_unlock:
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&local->irq_init_lock, flags);
failed:
kfree(hw_priv);
prism2_release((u_long)link);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-2.6.37/hostap_cs-fix-sleeping-function-called-from-invalid-context.patch
queue-2.6.37/iwlagn-enable-only-rfkill-interrupt-when-device-is-down.patch
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