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rtl8187: Fix kernel oops when device is removed when LEDS enabled 

As reported by Rick Farina (sidhayn@gmail.com), removing the RTL8187
USB stick, or unloading the driver rtl8187 using rmmod will cause a
kernel oops.  There are at least two forms of the failure, (1) BUG:
Scheduling while atomic, and (2) a fatal kernel page fault. This
problem is reported in Bugzilla #14539.

This problem does not occur for kernel 2.6.31, but does for 2.6.32-rc2,
thus it is technically a regression; however, bisection did not locate
any faulty patch. The fix was found by comparing the faulty code in
rtl8187 with p54usb.  My interpretation is that the handling of work
queues in mac80211 changed enough to the LEDs to be unregistered
before tasks on the work queues are cancelled. Previously, these
actions could be done in either order.

(Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski <herton@mandriva.com.br> reports that the
code is the same in 2.6.31, so this may be a candidate for 2.6.31.x.
-- JWL)

Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Reported-by: Rick Farina <sidhayn@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Rick Farina <sidhayn@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Larry Finger 2009-11-04 00:00:25 -06:00 committed by John W. Linville
parent bcfe3c2046
commit 37b12dd2b0
1 changed files with 2 additions and 2 deletions
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drivers/net/wireless/rtl818x/rtl8187_leds.c
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@ -210,10 +210,10 @@ void rtl8187_leds_exit(struct ieee80211_hw *dev)
/* turn the LED off before exiting */
ieee80211_queue_delayed_work(dev, &priv->led_off, 0);
cancel_delayed_work_sync(&priv->led_off);
cancel_delayed_work_sync(&priv->led_on);
rtl8187_unregister_led(&priv->led_rx);
rtl8187_unregister_led(&priv->led_tx);
cancel_delayed_work_sync(&priv->led_off);
cancel_delayed_work_sync(&priv->led_on);
}
#endif /* def CONFIG_RTL8187_LED */