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rtlwifi: Fix scheduling while atomic bug 

Kernel commits 41affd5 and 6539306 changed the locking in rtl_lps_leave()
from a spinlock to a mutex by doing the calls indirectly from a work queue
to reduce the time that interrupts were disabled. This change was fine for
most systems; however a scheduling while atomic bug was reported in
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=903881. The backtrace indicates
that routine rtl_is_special(), which calls rtl_lps_leave() in three places
was entered in atomic context. These direct calls are replaced by putting a
request on the appropriate work queue.

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Reported-and-tested-by: Nathaniel Doherty <ntdoherty@gmail.com>
Cc: Nathaniel Doherty <ntdoherty@gmail.com>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Larry Finger 2013-02-02 15:55:00 -06:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent 4c52d3d3fd
commit a5ffbe0a19
1 changed files with 4 additions and 3 deletions
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drivers/net/wireless/rtlwifi/base.c
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@ -1004,7 +1004,8 @@ u8 rtl_is_special_data(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb, u8 is_tx)
is_tx ? "Tx" : "Rx");
if (is_tx) {
rtl_lps_leave(hw);
schedule_work(&rtlpriv->
works.lps_leave_work);
ppsc->last_delaylps_stamp_jiffies =
jiffies;
}
@ -1014,7 +1015,7 @@ u8 rtl_is_special_data(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb, u8 is_tx)
}
} else if (ETH_P_ARP == ether_type) {
if (is_tx) {
rtl_lps_leave(hw);
schedule_work(&rtlpriv->works.lps_leave_work);
ppsc->last_delaylps_stamp_jiffies = jiffies;
}
@ -1024,7 +1025,7 @@ u8 rtl_is_special_data(struct ieee80211_hw *hw, struct sk_buff *skb, u8 is_tx)
"802.1X %s EAPOL pkt!!\n", is_tx ? "Tx" : "Rx");
if (is_tx) {
rtl_lps_leave(hw);
schedule_work(&rtlpriv->works.lps_leave_work);
ppsc->last_delaylps_stamp_jiffies = jiffies;
}