[PATCH] lockdep: annotate hostap netdev ->xmit_lock
authorArjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Mon, 3 Jul 2006 07:25:36 +0000 (00:25 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Mon, 3 Jul 2006 22:27:10 +0000 (15:27 -0700)
commitcd11acdd8542cb0c0fa7cd86590b1ba79d7e263a
tree0b3fd5ec340e05ea831fa24f46806350838bb296
parenta5b5bb9a053a973c23b867738c074acb3e80c0a0
[PATCH] lockdep: annotate hostap netdev ->xmit_lock

On Fri, 2006-06-30 at 15:45 -0700, Miles Lane wrote:
> Okay, I rebuilt my kernel with your combo patch applied.
> Then, I inserted my US Robotics USR2210 PCMCIA wifi card,
> ran "pccardutil eject", popped out the card and then inserted
> a Compaq iPaq wifi card.  This triggered the following.
>
> [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
> -------------------------------------------------------
> syslogd/1886 is trying to acquire lock:
>  (&dev->queue_lock){-+..}, at: [<c11a50b5>] dev_queue_xmit+0x120/0x24b
>
> but task is already holding lock:
>  (&dev->_xmit_lock){-+..}, at: [<c11a5118>] dev_queue_xmit+0x183/0x24b
>
> which lock already depends on the new lock.

ok this appears to be hostap playing games... it has 2 network devices
for one piece of hardware and one calls the other via the networking
layer; there is thankfully a natural ordering between the two, so just
making the slave one a separate type ought to make this work.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_hw.c