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>
{
/* 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)