There is a deadlock in rr_close(), which is shown below: (Thread 1) | (Thread 2) | rr_open() rr_close() | add_timer() spin_lock_irqsave() //(1) | (wait a time) ... | rr_timer() del_timer_sync() | spin_lock_irqsave() //(2) (wait timer to stop) | ... We hold rrpriv->lock in position (1) of thread 1 and use del_timer_sync() to wait timer to stop, but timer handler also need rrpriv->lock in position (2) of thread 2. As a result, rr_close() will block forever. This patch extracts del_timer_sync() from the protection of spin_lock_irqsave(), which could let timer handler to obtain the needed lock. Signed-off-by: Duoming Zhou <duoming@xxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/hippi/rrunner.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/net/hippi/rrunner.c b/drivers/net/hippi/rrunner.c index 16105292b14..74e845fa2e0 100644 --- a/drivers/net/hippi/rrunner.c +++ b/drivers/net/hippi/rrunner.c @@ -1355,7 +1355,9 @@ static int rr_close(struct net_device *dev) rrpriv->fw_running = 0; + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rrpriv->lock, flags); del_timer_sync(&rrpriv->timer); + spin_lock_irqsave(&rrpriv->lock, flags); writel(0, ®s->TxPi); writel(0, ®s->IpRxPi); -- 2.17.1