• Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso's avatar
    [PATCH] uml: fix spinlock recursion and sleep-inside-spinlock in error path · 71c8d4c3
    Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso authored
    In this error path, when the interface has had a problem, we call dev_close(),
    which is disallowed for two reasons:
    
    *) takes again the UML internal spinlock, inside the ->stop method of this
       device
    *) can be called in process context only, while we're in interrupt context.
    
    I've also thought that calling dev_close() may be a wrong policy to follow,
    but it's not up to me to decide that.
    
    However, we may end up with multiple dev_close() queued on the same device.
    But the initial test for (dev->flags & IFF_UP) makes this harmless, though -
    and dev_close() is supposed to care about races with itself.  So there's no
    harm in delaying the shutdown, IMHO.
    
    Something to mark the interface as "going to shutdown" would be appreciated,
    but dev_deactivate has the same problems as dev_close(), so we can't use it
    either.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
    Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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