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* [PATCH] hpsa: do not sleep in atomic context in rmmod path.
@ 2012-01-05 16:15 Stephen M. Cameron
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From: Stephen M. Cameron @ 2012-01-05 16:15 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: james.bottomley
  Cc: linux-scsi, linux-kernel, mikem, stephenmcameron, thenzl, akpm, stable

From: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>

Don't call kthread_stop with a spin lock held and interrupts
disabled because kthread_stop will sleep waiting for the thread
to stop.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
---
 drivers/scsi/hpsa.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
index 865d452..a0ba29d 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
@@ -4269,7 +4269,9 @@ static void stop_controller_lockup_detector(struct ctlr_info *h)
 	remove_ctlr_from_lockup_detector_list(h);
 	/* If the list of ctlr's to monitor is empty, stop the thread */
 	if (list_empty(&hpsa_ctlr_list)) {
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lockup_detector_lock, flags);
 		kthread_stop(hpsa_lockup_detector);
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&lockup_detector_lock, flags);
 		hpsa_lockup_detector = NULL;
 	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lockup_detector_lock, flags);


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