From: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 03:38:52 +0000 (+0800)
Subject: [PATCH] ipw2100: Fix deadlock detected by lockdep
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.19-rc1~1263^2~60^2~5
X-Git-Url: http://www.pilppa.org/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=efbd809829001c94e48b96337ea05a16d5ecee85;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git

[PATCH] ipw2100: Fix deadlock detected by lockdep

Fix by removing dependency between priv->action_sem and rtnl semaphore.

Signed-off-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
---

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c
index e955db435b3..5d5dab6a209 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ipw2100.c
@@ -6254,13 +6254,14 @@ static int ipw2100_pci_init_one(struct pci_dev *pci_dev,
 	 * member to call a function that then just turns and calls ipw2100_up.
 	 * net_dev->init is called after name allocation but before the
 	 * notifier chain is called */
-	mutex_lock(&priv->action_mutex);
 	err = register_netdev(dev);
 	if (err) {
 		printk(KERN_WARNING DRV_NAME
 		       "Error calling register_netdev.\n");
-		goto fail_unlock;
+		goto fail;
 	}
+
+	mutex_lock(&priv->action_mutex);
 	registered = 1;
 
 	IPW_DEBUG_INFO("%s: Bound to %s\n", dev->name, pci_name(pci_dev));