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Commit 6e4e2f81 authored by Arnd Bergmann's avatar Arnd Bergmann Committed by David S. Miller
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6pack,mkiss: fix lock inconsistency



Lockdep found a locking inconsistency in the mkiss_close function:

> kernel: [ INFO: inconsistent lock state ]
> kernel: 2.6.39.1 #3
> kernel: ---------------------------------
> kernel: inconsistent {IN-SOFTIRQ-R} -> {SOFTIRQ-ON-W} usage.
> kernel: ax25ipd/2813 [HC0[0]:SC0[0]:HE1:SE1] takes:
> kernel: (disc_data_lock){+++?.-}, at: [<ffffffffa018552b>] mkiss_close+0x1b/0x90 [mkiss]
> kernel: {IN-SOFTIRQ-R} state was registered at:

The message hints that disc_data_lock is aquired with softirqs disabled,
but does not itself disable softirqs, which can in rare circumstances
lead to a deadlock. 
The same problem is present in the 6pack driver, this patch fixes both
by using write_lock_bh instead of write_lock.

Reported-by: default avatarBernard F6BVP <f6bvp@free.fr>
Tested-by: default avatarBernard F6BVP <f6bvp@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: default avatarArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Acked-by: default avatarRalf <Baechle&lt;ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
parent 60c2ce2b
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