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Jiri Kosina committed f24b5cb818c
[SCSI] qla2xxx: fix potential deadlock on ha->hardware_lock Lockdep reports: === [ cut here ] === ========================================================= [ INFO: possible irq lock inversion dependency detected ] 3.6.0-0.0.0.28.36b5ec9-default #1 Not tainted --------------------------------------------------------- qla2xxx_1_dpc/368 just changed the state of lock: (&(&ha->vport_slock)->rlock){+.....}, at: [<ffffffffa009b377>] qla2x00_configure_hba+0x197/0x3c0 [qla2xxx] but this lock was taken by another, HARDIRQ-safe lock in the past: (&(&ha->hardware_lock)->rlock){-.....} and interrupts could create inverse lock ordering between them. other info that might help us debug this: Possible interrupt unsafe locking scenario: CPU0 CPU1 ---- ---- lock(&(&ha->vport_slock)->rlock); local_irq_disable(); lock(&(&ha->hardware_lock)->rlock); lock(&(&ha->vport_slock)->rlock); <Interrupt> lock(&(&ha->hardware_lock)->rlock); === [ cut here ] === Fix the potential deadlock by disabling IRQs while holding ha->vport_slock. Reported-and-tested-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Acked-by: Saurav Kashyap <saurav.kashyap@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <JBottomley@Parallels.com>