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Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/ide/ide.c | 19 |
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide.c b/drivers/ide/ide.c index 287a66201150..16890769dca6 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/ide.c +++ b/drivers/ide/ide.c @@ -973,8 +973,8 @@ ide_settings_t *ide_find_setting_by_name (ide_drive_t *drive, char *name) * @drive: drive * * Automatically remove all the driver specific settings for this - * drive. This function may sleep and must not be called from IRQ - * context. The caller must hold ide_setting_sem. + * drive. This function may not be called from IRQ context. The + * caller must hold ide_setting_sem. */ static void auto_remove_settings (ide_drive_t *drive) @@ -1874,11 +1874,22 @@ void ide_unregister_subdriver(ide_drive_t *drive, ide_driver_t *driver) { unsigned long flags; - down(&ide_setting_sem); - spin_lock_irqsave(&ide_lock, flags); #ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS ide_remove_proc_entries(drive->proc, driver->proc); #endif + down(&ide_setting_sem); + spin_lock_irqsave(&ide_lock, flags); + /* + * ide_setting_sem protects the settings list + * ide_lock protects the use of settings + * + * so we need to hold both, ide_settings_sem because we want to + * modify the settings list, and ide_lock because we cannot take + * a setting out that is being used. + * + * OTOH both ide_{read,write}_setting are only ever used under + * ide_setting_sem. + */ auto_remove_settings(drive); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ide_lock, flags); up(&ide_setting_sem); |