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ath9k: disable the tasklet before taking the PCU lock

Fixes a reported CPU soft lockup where the tasklet tries to acquire the
lock and blocks while ath_prepare_reset (holding the lock) waits for it
to complete.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reported-by: Robert Shade <robert.shade@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Felix Fietkau <nbd@openwrt.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Felix Fietkau 12 years ago
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1 changed files with 3 additions and 4 deletions
  1. 3 4
      drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c

+ 3 - 4
drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/main.c

@@ -196,16 +196,12 @@ static bool ath_prepare_reset(struct ath_softc *sc, bool retry_tx)
 	ath9k_debug_samp_bb_mac(sc);
 	ath9k_hw_disable_interrupts(ah);
 
-	tasklet_disable(&sc->intr_tq);
-
 	if (!ath_stoprecv(sc))
 		ret = false;
 
 	if (!ath_drain_all_txq(sc, retry_tx))
 		ret = false;
 
-	tasklet_enable(&sc->intr_tq);
-
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -262,6 +258,7 @@ static int ath_reset_internal(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath9k_channel *hchan,
 
 	__ath_cancel_work(sc);
 
+	tasklet_disable(&sc->intr_tq);
 	spin_lock_bh(&sc->sc_pcu_lock);
 
 	if (!(sc->hw->conf.flags & IEEE80211_CONF_OFFCHANNEL)) {
@@ -296,6 +293,8 @@ static int ath_reset_internal(struct ath_softc *sc, struct ath9k_channel *hchan,
 
 out:
 	spin_unlock_bh(&sc->sc_pcu_lock);
+	tasklet_enable(&sc->intr_tq);
+
 	return r;
 }