From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2007 07:37:43 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: parport_pc locking fix
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.23-rc2~125
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8daedea656ef48d36d1bda3d1339da484387c710;p=linux-2.6

parport_pc locking fix

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8821 reports a might_sleep()
warning due to parport_pc_exit() running platform_device_unregister() while
holding ports_lock.

Just remove the locking: nobody else can access ports_list during module_exit.

Cc: "Mike Sharkey" <mike@pikeaero.com>
Cc: Tim Waugh <tim@cyberelk.net>
Cc: Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c b/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c
index 5d58ad55d8..e2be840011 100644
--- a/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c
+++ b/drivers/parport/parport_pc.c
@@ -3445,7 +3445,6 @@ static void __exit parport_pc_exit(void)
 		pnp_unregister_driver (&parport_pc_pnp_driver);
 	platform_driver_unregister(&parport_pc_platform_driver);
 
-	spin_lock(&ports_lock);
 	while (!list_empty(&ports_list)) {
 		struct parport_pc_private *priv;
 		struct parport *port;
@@ -3455,11 +3454,8 @@ static void __exit parport_pc_exit(void)
 		if (port->dev && port->dev->bus == &platform_bus_type)
 			platform_device_unregister(
 				to_platform_device(port->dev));
-		spin_unlock(&ports_lock);
 		parport_pc_unregister_port(port);
-		spin_lock(&ports_lock);
 	}
-	spin_unlock(&ports_lock);
 }
 
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Phil Blundell, Tim Waugh, others");