[PATCH] 8139too deadlock fix

> stack backtrace:

>  [<f9099d31>] rtl8139_start_xmit+0xd9/0xff [8139too]
>  [<c11ad5ea>] netpoll_send_skb+0x98/0xea

This seems to be a real deadlock...

So netpoll_send_skb takes the _xmit_lock, which is all nitty gritty
but then rtl8139_start_xmit comes around while that lock is taken, and
does

      spin_unlock_irq(&tp->lock);

which.. enables interrupts and softirqs; this is quite bad because the
xmit lock is taken in softirq context for the watchdog like this:
  [<c1200376>] _spin_lock+0x23/0x32
  [<c11af282>] dev_watchdog+0x14/0xb1
  [<c101dab2>] run_timer_softirq+0xf2/0x14a
  [<c101a691>] __do_softirq+0x55/0xb0
  [<c1004a8d>] do_softirq+0x58/0xbd

Which would deadlock now that the spin_unlock_irq() has enabled
irqs/softirqs while the _xmit_lock is still held.

The patch below turns this into a irqsave/irqrestore pair so that
interrupts don't get enabled unconditionally.

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/net/8139too.c b/drivers/net/8139too.c
index cd9718512d1c..e4f4eaff7679 100644
--- a/drivers/net/8139too.c
+++ b/drivers/net/8139too.c
@@ -1709,6 +1709,7 @@ static int rtl8139_start_xmit (struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
         void __iomem *ioaddr = tp->mmio_addr;
         unsigned int entry;
         unsigned int len = skb->len;
+        unsigned long flags;
 
         /* Calculate the next Tx descriptor entry. */
         entry = tp->cur_tx % NUM_TX_DESC;
@@ -1725,7 +1726,7 @@ static int rtl8139_start_xmit (struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
                 return 0;
         }
 
-        spin_lock_irq(&tp->lock);
+        spin_lock_irqsave(&tp->lock, flags);
         RTL_W32_F (TxStatus0 + (entry * sizeof (u32)),
                    tp->tx_flag | max(len, (unsigned int)ETH_ZLEN));
 
@@ -1736,7 +1737,7 @@ static int rtl8139_start_xmit (struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *dev)
 
         if ((tp->cur_tx - NUM_TX_DESC) == tp->dirty_tx)
                 netif_stop_queue (dev);
-        spin_unlock_irq(&tp->lock);
+        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tp->lock, flags);
 
         if (netif_msg_tx_queued(tp))
                 printk (KERN_DEBUG "%s: Queued Tx packet size %u to slot %d.\n",