From: Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 10:22:40 -0800

> On Tue, 12 Dec 2017 08:34:45 -0500 (EST)
> David Miller <da...@davemloft.net> wrote:
> 
>> From: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1...@gmail.com>
>> Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2017 16:38:12 +0800
>> 
>> > According to drivers/net/ethernet/marvell/skge.c, the driver may sleep
>> > under a spinlock.
>> > The function call path is:
>> > skge_remove (acquire the spinlock)
>> >   free_irq --> may sleep
>> > 
>> > I do not find a good way to fix it, so I only report.
>> > This possible bug is found by my static analysis tool (DSAC) and
>> > checked by my code review.  
>> 
>> This was added by:
>> 
>> commit a9e9fd7182332d0cf5f3e601df3e71dd431b70d7
>> Author: Stephen Hemminger <shemmin...@vyatta.com>
>> Date:   Tue Sep 27 13:41:37 2011 -0400
>> 
>>     skge: handle irq better on single port card
>> 
>> I think the free_irq() can be moved below the unlock.
>> 
>> Stephen, please take a look.
> 
> The IRQ was being free twice.
> How did you see it, I really doubt any multi-port SKGE cards
> still exist.

He sees it by reading the code, please take a look at this
and move the free_irq() out of the spin locked section since
it can sleep.

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