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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2010-05-26 23:43:53 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-05-27 18:12:50 +0200
commita747c5abc329611220f16df0bb4cf0ca4a7fdf0c (patch)
treef34b59f7208a7d320138ed0807474ee351534b4e /drivers/char
parentipmi: update driver to use dev_printk and its constructs (diff)
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ipmi: handle run_to_completion properly in deliver_recv_msg()
If run_to_completion flag is set, it means that we are running in a single-threaded mode, and thus no locks are held. This fixes a deadlock when IPMI notifier is being called during panic. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
index f052c481327a..35603dd4e6c5 100644
--- a/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
+++ b/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c
@@ -323,9 +323,14 @@ static void deliver_recv_msg(struct smi_info *smi_info,
{
/* Deliver the message to the upper layer with the lock
released. */
- spin_unlock(&(smi_info->si_lock));
- ipmi_smi_msg_received(smi_info->intf, msg);
- spin_lock(&(smi_info->si_lock));
+
+ if (smi_info->run_to_completion) {
+ ipmi_smi_msg_received(smi_info->intf, msg);
+ } else {
+ spin_unlock(&(smi_info->si_lock));
+ ipmi_smi_msg_received(smi_info->intf, msg);
+ spin_lock(&(smi_info->si_lock));
+ }
}
static void return_hosed_msg(struct smi_info *smi_info, int cCode)