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| author | Takashi Iwai | 2013-05-22 18:28:38 +0200 |
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| committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman | 2013-06-03 22:57:29 +0200 |
| commit | fe304143b0c3d43fbf13773bcd4a7989a1fb4e1c (patch) | |
| tree | 882efb8d1ce0c0ed0140e5c88d89677ce9037b2b /drivers/bcma/driver_mips.c | |
| parent | dell_rbu: Select CONFIG_FW_LOADER_USER_HELPER explicitly (diff) | |
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firmware: Avoid deadlock of usermodehelper lock at shutdown
When a system goes to reboot/shutdown, it tries to disable the
usermode helper via usermodehelper_disable(). This might be blocked
when a driver tries to load a firmware beforehand and it's stuck by
some reason. For example, dell_rbu driver loads the firmware in
non-hotplug mode and waits for user-space clearing the loading sysfs
flag. If user-space doesn't clear the flag, it waits forever, thus
blocks the reboot, too.
As a workaround, in this patch, the firmware class driver registers a
reboot notifier so that it can abort all pending f/w bufs before
issuing usermodehelper_disable().
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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