The following commit has been merged in the linux branch: commit cec4a69cfc2bc780b4107193cb9bd621b67ab2b6 Author: Sven Eckelmann sven.eckelmann@gmx.de Date: Sat Jan 2 11:30:41 2010 +0100

Staging: batman-adv: Use forw_bcast_list_lock always with disabled interrupts

forw_bcast_list_lock is spin_locked in both process and softirq context. SoftIRQ calls the spinlock with disabled IRQ and normal process context with enabled IRQs.

When process context is inside an spin_locked area protected by forw_bcast_list_lock and gets interrupted by an IRQ, it could happen that something tries to lock forw_bcast_list_lock again in SoftIRQ context. It cannot proceed further since the lock is already taken somewhere else, but no reschedule will happen inside the SoftIRQ context. This leads to an complete kernel hang without any chance of resurrection.

All functions called in process context must disable IRQs when they try to get get that lock to to prevent any reschedule due to IRQs.

Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann sven.eckelmann@gmx.de Acked-by: Marek Lindner lindner_marek@yahoo.de Signed-off-by: Andrew Lunn andrew@lunn.ch Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@suse.de

diff --git a/drivers/staging/batman-adv/send.c b/drivers/staging/batman-adv/send.c index fc4953f..49b1534 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/batman-adv/send.c +++ b/drivers/staging/batman-adv/send.c @@ -338,12 +338,13 @@ static void forw_packet_free(struct forw_packet *forw_packet) static void _add_bcast_packet_to_list(struct forw_packet *forw_packet, unsigned long send_time) { + unsigned long flags; INIT_HLIST_NODE(&forw_packet->list);

/* add new packet to packet list */ - spin_lock(&forw_bcast_list_lock); + spin_lock_irqsave(&forw_bcast_list_lock, flags); hlist_add_head(&forw_packet->list, &forw_bcast_list); - spin_unlock(&forw_bcast_list_lock); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&forw_bcast_list_lock, flags);

/* start timer for this packet */ INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&forw_packet->delayed_work, @@ -382,10 +383,11 @@ void send_outstanding_bcast_packet(struct work_struct *work) container_of(work, struct delayed_work, work); struct forw_packet *forw_packet = container_of(delayed_work, struct forw_packet, delayed_work); + unsigned long flags;

- spin_lock(&forw_bcast_list_lock); + spin_lock_irqsave(&forw_bcast_list_lock, flags); hlist_del(&forw_packet->list); - spin_unlock(&forw_bcast_list_lock); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&forw_bcast_list_lock, flags);

/* rebroadcast packet */ rcu_read_lock(); @@ -436,24 +438,25 @@ void purge_outstanding_packets(void) { struct forw_packet *forw_packet; struct hlist_node *tmp_node, *safe_tmp_node; + unsigned long flags;

bat_dbg(DBG_BATMAN, "purge_outstanding_packets()\n");

/* free bcast list */ - spin_lock(&forw_bcast_list_lock); + spin_lock_irqsave(&forw_bcast_list_lock, flags); hlist_for_each_entry_safe(forw_packet, tmp_node, safe_tmp_node, &forw_bcast_list, list) {

- spin_unlock(&forw_bcast_list_lock); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&forw_bcast_list_lock, flags);

/** * send_outstanding_bcast_packet() will lock the list to * delete the item from the list */ cancel_delayed_work_sync(&forw_packet->delayed_work); - spin_lock(&forw_bcast_list_lock); + spin_lock_irqsave(&forw_bcast_list_lock, flags); } - spin_unlock(&forw_bcast_list_lock); + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&forw_bcast_list_lock, flags);

/* free batman packet list */ spin_lock(&forw_bat_list_lock);