The driver may sleep under a spin lock, and the function call path is:
b43legacy_attr_interfmode_store (acquire the lock by spin_lock_irqsave)
  b43legacy_radio_set_interference_mitigation
    b43legacy_radio_interference_mitigation_disable
      b43legacy_calc_nrssi_slope
        b43legacy_synth_pu_workaround
          might_sleep and msleep --> may sleep

Fixing it may be complex, and a possible way is to remove 
spin_lock_irqsave and spin_lock_irqrestore in 
b43legacy_attr_interfmode_store, and the code has been protected by
mutex_lock and mutex_unlock.

Signed-off-by: Jia-Ju Bai <baijiaju1...@163.com>
---
 drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/sysfs.c |    2 --
 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/sysfs.c 
b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/sysfs.c
index 2a1da15..9ede143 100644
--- a/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/b43legacy/sysfs.c
@@ -137,14 +137,12 @@ static ssize_t b43legacy_attr_interfmode_store(struct 
device *dev,
        }
 
        mutex_lock(&wldev->wl->mutex);
-       spin_lock_irqsave(&wldev->wl->irq_lock, flags);
 
        err = b43legacy_radio_set_interference_mitigation(wldev, mode);
        if (err)
                b43legacyerr(wldev->wl, "Interference Mitigation not "
                       "supported by device\n");
        mmiowb();
-       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&wldev->wl->irq_lock, flags);
        mutex_unlock(&wldev->wl->mutex);
 
        return err ? err : count;
-- 
1.7.9.5


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