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b43: Fix lockdep splat 

In https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=67561, a locking dependency is reported
when b43 is used with hostapd, and rfkill is used to kill the radio output.

The lockdep splat (in part) is as follows:

======================================================
[ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
3.12.0 #1 Not tainted
-------------------------------------------------------
rfkill/10040 is trying to acquire lock:
 (rtnl_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffff8146f282>] rtnl_lock+0x12/0x20

but task is already holding lock:
 (rfkill_global_mutex){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa04832ca>] rfkill_fop_write+0x6a/0x170 [rfkill]

--snip--

Chain exists of:
  rtnl_mutex --> misc_mtx --> rfkill_global_mutex

The fix is to move the initialization of the hardware random number generator
outside the code range covered by the rtnl_mutex.

Reported-by: yury <urykhy@gmail.com>
Tested-by: yury <urykhy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Larry Finger 2014-01-12 15:11:37 -06:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent 9795229752
commit 09164043f6
1 changed files with 11 additions and 6 deletions
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drivers/net/wireless/b43/main.c
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@ -2424,6 +2424,7 @@ error:
static int b43_one_core_attach(struct b43_bus_dev *dev, struct b43_wl *wl);
static void b43_one_core_detach(struct b43_bus_dev *dev);
static int b43_rng_init(struct b43_wl *wl);
static void b43_request_firmware(struct work_struct *work)
{
@ -2475,6 +2476,10 @@ start_ieee80211:
goto err_one_core_detach;
wl->hw_registred = true;
b43_leds_register(wl->current_dev);
/* Register HW RNG driver */
b43_rng_init(wl);
goto out;
err_one_core_detach:
@ -4636,9 +4641,6 @@ static void b43_wireless_core_exit(struct b43_wldev *dev)
if (!dev || b43_status(dev) != B43_STAT_INITIALIZED)
return;
/* Unregister HW RNG driver */
b43_rng_exit(dev->wl);
b43_set_status(dev, B43_STAT_UNINIT);
/* Stop the microcode PSM. */
@ -4795,9 +4797,6 @@ static int b43_wireless_core_init(struct b43_wldev *dev)
b43_set_status(dev, B43_STAT_INITIALIZED);
/* Register HW RNG driver */
b43_rng_init(dev->wl);
out:
return err;
@ -5464,6 +5463,9 @@ static void b43_bcma_remove(struct bcma_device *core)
b43_one_core_detach(wldev->dev);
/* Unregister HW RNG driver */
b43_rng_exit(wl);
b43_leds_unregister(wl);
ieee80211_free_hw(wl->hw);
@ -5541,6 +5543,9 @@ static void b43_ssb_remove(struct ssb_device *sdev)
b43_one_core_detach(dev);
/* Unregister HW RNG driver */
b43_rng_exit(wl);
if (list_empty(&wl->devlist)) {
b43_leds_unregister(wl);
/* Last core on the chip unregistered.