The patch titled
netdev: ehea: locking order correction
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
net-ehea-locking-order-correction.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: netdev: ehea: locking order correction
From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx>
Nested locks always need to be taken in the same order. This change factors
out the ehea_fw_handles.lock to make the locking order consistent.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Christoph Raisch <raisch@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Klein <tklein@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c~net-ehea-locking-order-correction drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
--- a/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c~net-ehea-locking-order-correction
+++ a/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
@@ -2567,14 +2567,14 @@ static int ehea_down(struct net_device *
if (port->state == EHEA_PORT_DOWN)
return 0;
+ mutex_lock(&ehea_fw_handles.lock);
+
down(&ehea_bcmc_regs.lock);
ehea_drop_multicast_list(dev);
ehea_broadcast_reg_helper(port, H_DEREG_BCMC);
ehea_free_interrupts(dev);
- mutex_lock(&ehea_fw_handles.lock);
-
port->state = EHEA_PORT_DOWN;
ehea_update_bcmc_registrations();
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx are
git-net.patch
usb-u132-hcd-driver-style-clean-up.patch
usb-u132-hcd-driver-semaphore-to-mutex.patch
profile-likely-unlikely-macros.patch
profile-likely-unlikely-macros-fix.patch
likely_prof-changed-to-use-proc_create.patch
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