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| author |   Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> | 2006-09-18 16:28:06 -0400 |
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| committer |   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> | 2006-09-25 21:08:40 -0700 |
| commit | 7e9f4b2d3e21e87c26025810413ef1592834e63b (patch) | |
| tree | 8fa28b786420fede1f3b656ee21289cc4927c6b2 /init | |
| parent | Driver core: Remove unneeded routines from driver core (diff) | |
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Driver core: Don't call put methods while holding a spinlock
The klist utility routines currently call _put methods while holding a
spinlock. This is of course illegal; a put routine could try to
unregister a device and hence need to sleep.
No problems have arisen until now because in many cases klist removals
were done synchronously, so the _put methods were never actually used.
In other cases we may simply have been lucky.
This patch (as784) reworks the klist routines so that _put methods are
called only _after_ the klist's spinlock has been released.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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