On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 02:45:27PM +0100, Maximilian Schwerin wrote: > From: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@xxxxxxxx> > > This patch fixes the following spinlock recursion bug seen when bringing down > the ethernet interface. > > [ 87.354683] BUG: spinlock recursion on CPU#0, ifconfig/1722 > [ 87.360899] lock: d2e01cd0, .magic: dead4ead, .owner: ifconfig/1722, .owner_cpu: 0 > [ 87.373410] Call Trace: > [ 87.379546] [d2f13c30] [c0008394] show_stack+0x3c/0x160 (unreliable) > [ 87.386227] [d2f13c60] [c0169dd8] spin_bug+0x8c/0xd0 > [ 87.392858] [d2f13c80] [c016a0e4] _raw_spin_lock+0xb4/0xb8 > [ 87.399570] [d2f13c90] [c02c855c] _spin_lock_irqsave+0x30/0x48 > [ 87.406258] [d2f13cb0] [c01aa5d4] defer_bh+0x28/0xfc > [ 87.412726] [d2f13cd0] [c01c32e8] usb_hcd_giveback_urb+0x5c/0xdc > [ 87.419209] [d2f13ce0] [c01d2cec] sthcd_giveback_urb+0x30/0x50 > [ 87.425762] [d2f13d00] [c01d488c] sthcd_urb_dequeue+0x7c/0xac > [ 87.432318] [d2f13d30] [c01c3478] unlink1+0x3c/0x4c > [ 87.438960] [d2f13d40] [c01c45c8] usb_hcd_unlink_urb+0x88/0xa4 > [ 87.445629] [d2f13d60] [c01c49ac] usb_unlink_urb+0x54/0x5c > [ 87.452210] [d2f13d70] [c01aa170] unlink_urbs+0x40/0xb0 > [ 87.458762] [d2f13d90] [c01ab470] usbnet_stop+0xdc/0x1a0 > [ 87.465320] [d2f13df0] [c023bf18] dev_close+0xa0/0xdc > [ 87.471639] [d2f13e00] [c023bc98] dev_change_flags+0x84/0x1b4 > [ 87.477908] [d2f13e20] [c0283f50] devinet_ioctl+0x5ec/0x6b8 > [ 87.484222] [d2f13e90] [c0284cbc] inet_ioctl+0x98/0xbc > [ 87.490450] [d2f13ea0] [c022a300] sock_ioctl+0x60/0x284 > [ 87.496566] [d2f13ec0] [c00a2714] vfs_ioctl+0x44/0xa8 > [ 87.502657] [d2f13ee0] [c00a2d24] do_vfs_ioctl+0x88/0x24c > [ 87.508707] [d2f13f10] [c00a2f28] sys_ioctl+0x40/0x74 > [ 87.514728] [d2f13f40] [c0011bbc] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38 > [ 87.520780] --- Exception: c01 at 0xff59878 > [ 87.520783] LR = 0xff597dc > > unlink_urbs() takes the sk_buff queue lock &q->lock before removing the > queued URBs via usb_unlink_urb(). > The issue here is that the completion handler of a queued TX URB will > get called when the URB is unlinked, then tx_complete() will call defer_bh() > which will try to take the queue lock again and fail. > > The fix here is to release the list lock before unlinking a URB. > > Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@xxxxxxxx> > Signed-off-by: Maximilian Schwerin <mvs@xxxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/net/usb/usbnet.c | 2 ++ > 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) Hint, use scripts/get_maintainer.pl to find the right person to send this patch to (you missed a list, and because of that, the patch will never get applied...) thanks, greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html