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| author | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2010-05-26 14:43:53 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-05-27 09:12:50 -0700 |
| commit | a747c5abc329611220f16df0bb4cf0ca4a7fdf0c (patch) | |
| tree | f34b59f7208a7d320138ed0807474ee351534b4e /drivers/char/ipmi | |
| parent | 279fbd0c5daa60c76e59df33f436ca2300f2b603 (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/ipmi')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c | 11 |
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 f052c48..35603dd 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) |
