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ipmi: handle run_to_completion properly in deliver_recv_msg()

If run_to_completion flag is set, it means that we are running in a
single-threaded mode, and thus no locks are held.

This fixes a deadlock when IPMI notifier is being called during panic.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Jiri Kosina 15 years ago
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1 changed files with 8 additions and 3 deletions
  1. 8 3
      drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c

+ 8 - 3
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c

@@ -323,9 +323,14 @@ static void deliver_recv_msg(struct smi_info *smi_info,
 {
 	/* Deliver the message to the upper layer with the lock
 	   released. */
-	spin_unlock(&(smi_info->si_lock));
-	ipmi_smi_msg_received(smi_info->intf, msg);
-	spin_lock(&(smi_info->si_lock));
+
+	if (smi_info->run_to_completion) {
+		ipmi_smi_msg_received(smi_info->intf, msg);
+	} else {
+		spin_unlock(&(smi_info->si_lock));
+		ipmi_smi_msg_received(smi_info->intf, msg);
+		spin_lock(&(smi_info->si_lock));
+	}
 }
 
 static void return_hosed_msg(struct smi_info *smi_info, int cCode)