Merge tag 'v3.6-rc5' into for-linus

Sync with mainline so that I can revert an input patch that came in through
another subsystem tree.

1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index d2a5f4ecc6dd..e1b2822fff97 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -75,6 +75,14 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
 	int state = 0;
 
 	/*
+	 * Disable local interrupts. This will prevent panic_smp_self_stop
+	 * from deadlocking the first cpu that invokes the panic, since
+	 * there is nothing to prevent an interrupt handler (that runs
+	 * after the panic_lock is acquired) from invoking panic again.
+	 */
+	local_irq_disable();
+
+	/*
 	 * It's possible to come here directly from a panic-assertion and
 	 * not have preempt disabled. Some functions called from here want
 	 * preempt to be disabled. No point enabling it later though...