On Wednesday 28 November 2007 16:05:35 Larry Finger wrote:
> Michael Buesch wrote:
> > 
> > So it's a lock dependency between rfkill->mutex and wl->mutex?
> > So, now comes the question that really matters. Who is the caller
> > of rfkill_toggle_radio, in the case where it crashes?
> >
> 
> Here is the full dump. It looks to me as if b43_rfkill_soft_toggle() calls 
> rfkill_handler(), which
> calls rfkill_toggle_radio() and it is calling b43_rfkill_soft_toggle(). I'd 
> call that a loop.

I think it's a different bug. The backtrace seems corrupted.

Can you try this patch? There is some circular locking in rfkill.

Index: wireless-2.6/net/rfkill/rfkill.c
===================================================================
--- wireless-2.6.orig/net/rfkill/rfkill.c       2007-11-20 19:09:35.000000000 
+0100
+++ wireless-2.6/net/rfkill/rfkill.c    2007-11-28 17:09:55.000000000 +0100
@@ -60,11 +60,7 @@ static void rfkill_led_trigger(struct rf
 static int rfkill_toggle_radio(struct rfkill *rfkill,
                                enum rfkill_state state)
 {
-       int retval;
-
-       retval = mutex_lock_interruptible(&rfkill->mutex);
-       if (retval)
-               return retval;
+       int retval = 0;
 
        if (state != rfkill->state) {
                retval = rfkill->toggle_radio(rfkill->data, state);
@@ -74,7 +70,6 @@ static int rfkill_toggle_radio(struct rf
                }
        }
 
-       mutex_unlock(&rfkill->mutex);
        return retval;
 }
 
@@ -158,12 +153,13 @@ static ssize_t rfkill_state_store(struct
        if (!capable(CAP_NET_ADMIN))
                return -EPERM;
 
+       if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&rfkill->mutex))
+               return -ERESTARTSYS;
        error = rfkill_toggle_radio(rfkill,
                        state ? RFKILL_STATE_ON : RFKILL_STATE_OFF);
-       if (error)
-               return error;
+       mutex_unlock(&rfkill->mutex);
 
-       return count;
+       return error ? error : count;
 }
 
 static ssize_t rfkill_claim_show(struct device *dev,

-- 
Greetings Michael.
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