Calling cancel_delayed_work() from inside
spin_lock_irqsave, introduces a potential deadlock.
As explained by Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
A - lock
T - timer
phase CPU 1 CPU 2
---------------------------------------------
some place that calls
cancel_timer_sync()
(which is the | code)
lock-irq(A)
| "lock-irq"(T)
| "unlock"(T)
| wait(T)
unlock(A)
timer softirq
"lock"(T)
run(T)
"unlock"(T)
irq handler
lock(A)
unlock(A)
Now all that again, interleaved, leading to deadlock:
lock-irq(A)
"lock"(T)
run(T)
IRQ during or maybe
before run(T) --> lock(A)
"lock-irq"(T)
wait(T)
We fix this by moving the call to cancel_delayed_work() into workqueue.
There are cases where the work may not actually be queued or running
at the time we are trying to cancel it, but cancel_delayed_work() is
able to deal with this.
Also cleanup iwl_set_mode related to this call. This function
(iwl_set_mode) is only called when bringing interface up and there will
thus not be any scanning done. No need to try to cancel scanning.
Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13224, which was also
reported at http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=124081921903223&w=2 .
Tested-by: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Reinette Chatre <reinette.chatre@intel.com>
Acked-by: Zhu Yi <yi.zhu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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