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authorDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>2009-11-08 17:41:20 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-12-08 10:22:04 -0800
commit3c6f31de43c672ece8bcdd8262efd57c14c20c8f (patch)
tree4c1c3a365657a279c40032ba8008f4cc9f2e5004 /arch
parente5ac34fd383ddae70158d220e45a25ad97b02452 (diff)
sparc: Move of_set_property_mutex acquisition outside of devtree_lock grab.
[ Upstream commit 1c9d80ddc60f8ac26344ec3db9830e5f8016c16d ] Otherwise we try to sleep with preemption disabled, etc. Noticed by Thomas Gleixner. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch')
-rw-r--r--arch/sparc/kernel/prom_common.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sparc/kernel/prom_common.c b/arch/sparc/kernel/prom_common.c
index 0fb5789d43c..7b4adbc63b4 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/kernel/prom_common.c
+++ b/arch/sparc/kernel/prom_common.c
@@ -76,6 +76,7 @@ int of_set_property(struct device_node *dp, const char *name, void *val, int len
err = -ENODEV;
+ mutex_lock(&of_set_property_mutex);
write_lock(&devtree_lock);
prevp = &dp->properties;
while (*prevp) {
@@ -85,9 +86,7 @@ int of_set_property(struct device_node *dp, const char *name, void *val, int len
void *old_val = prop->value;
int ret;
- mutex_lock(&of_set_property_mutex);
ret = prom_setprop(dp->node, name, val, len);
- mutex_unlock(&of_set_property_mutex);
err = -EINVAL;
if (ret >= 0) {
@@ -106,6 +105,7 @@ int of_set_property(struct device_node *dp, const char *name, void *val, int len
prevp = &(*prevp)->next;
}
write_unlock(&devtree_lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&of_set_property_mutex);
/* XXX Upate procfs if necessary... */