3.0-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@xxxxxxxxxx> [ Upstream commit 3f315bef23075ea8a98a6fe4221a83b83456d970 ] __netpoll_cleanup() is called in netconsole_netdev_event() while holding a spinlock. Release/acquire the spinlock before/after it and restart the loop. Also, disable the netconsole completely, because we won't have chance after the restart of the loop, and might end up in a situation where nt->enabled == 1 and nt->np.dev == NULL. Signed-off-by: Veaceslav Falico <vfalico@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/net/netconsole.c | 20 +++++++++----------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/net/netconsole.c +++ b/drivers/net/netconsole.c @@ -630,6 +630,7 @@ static int netconsole_netdev_event(struc goto done; spin_lock_irqsave(&target_list_lock, flags); +restart: list_for_each_entry(nt, &target_list, list) { netconsole_target_get(nt); if (nt->np.dev == dev) { @@ -642,20 +643,17 @@ static int netconsole_netdev_event(struc case NETDEV_UNREGISTER: /* * rtnl_lock already held + * we might sleep in __netpoll_cleanup() */ - if (nt->np.dev) { - spin_unlock_irqrestore( - &target_list_lock, - flags); - __netpoll_cleanup(&nt->np); - spin_lock_irqsave(&target_list_lock, - flags); - dev_put(nt->np.dev); - nt->np.dev = NULL; - } + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&target_list_lock, flags); + __netpoll_cleanup(&nt->np); + spin_lock_irqsave(&target_list_lock, flags); + dev_put(nt->np.dev); + nt->np.dev = NULL; nt->enabled = 0; stopped = true; - break; + netconsole_target_put(nt); + goto restart; } } netconsole_target_put(nt); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html