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pcmcia: avoid sysfs-related lockup for cardbus

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In cb_free(), we remove some sysfs files -- other sysfs files might
grab ops_mutex, so we cannot hold it while removing sysfs files. This
fixes http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/17/88 .

Tested-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
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Dominik Brodowski 2010-01-18 08:43:39 +01:00
parent aa584ca4cd
commit c3bfc96ef7
1 changed files with 10 additions and 2 deletions
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drivers/pcmcia/cs.c
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@ -400,10 +400,19 @@ static void socket_shutdown(struct pcmcia_socket *s)
s->lock_count = 0;
kfree(s->fake_cis);
s->fake_cis = NULL;
s->functions = 0;
/* From here on we can be sure that only we (that is, the
* pccardd thread) accesses this socket, and all (16-bit)
* PCMCIA interactions are gone. Therefore, release
* ops_mutex so that we don't get a sysfs-related lockdep
* warning.
*/
mutex_unlock(&s->ops_mutex);
#ifdef CONFIG_CARDBUS
cb_free(s);
#endif
s->functions = 0;
/* give socket some time to power down */
msleep(100);
@ -415,7 +424,6 @@ static void socket_shutdown(struct pcmcia_socket *s)
}
s->state &= ~SOCKET_INUSE;
mutex_unlock(&s->ops_mutex);
}
static int socket_setup(struct pcmcia_socket *skt, int initial_delay)