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authorJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>2011-01-12 13:40:33 +0100
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2011-01-13 15:46:45 -0500
commit681c4d07dd5b2ce2ad9f6dbbf7841e479fbc7754 (patch)
tree095ffe7e63cc61951095b5642a38136557502a21 /net
parent8d661f1e462d50bd83de87ee628aaf820ce3c66c (diff)
mac80211: fix lockdep warning
Since the introduction of the fixes for the reorder timer, mac80211 will cause lockdep warnings because lockdep confuses local->skb_queue and local->rx_skb_queue and treats their lock as the same. However, their locks are different, and are valid in different contexts (the former is used in IRQ context, the latter in BH only) and the only thing to be done is mark the former as a different lock class so that lockdep can tell the difference. Reported-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Reported-by: Sujith <m.sujith@gmail.com> Reported-by: Miles Lane <miles.lane@gmail.com> Tested-by: Sujith <m.sujith@gmail.com> Tested-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'net')
-rw-r--r--net/mac80211/main.c12
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/mac80211/main.c b/net/mac80211/main.c
index 485d36bc9a46..a46ff06d7cb8 100644
--- a/net/mac80211/main.c
+++ b/net/mac80211/main.c
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ module_param(ieee80211_disable_40mhz_24ghz, bool, 0644);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(ieee80211_disable_40mhz_24ghz,
"Disable 40MHz support in the 2.4GHz band");
+static struct lock_class_key ieee80211_rx_skb_queue_class;
+
void ieee80211_configure_filter(struct ieee80211_local *local)
{
u64 mc;
@@ -569,7 +571,15 @@ struct ieee80211_hw *ieee80211_alloc_hw(size_t priv_data_len,
spin_lock_init(&local->filter_lock);
spin_lock_init(&local->queue_stop_reason_lock);
- skb_queue_head_init(&local->rx_skb_queue);
+ /*
+ * The rx_skb_queue is only accessed from tasklets,
+ * but other SKB queues are used from within IRQ
+ * context. Therefore, this one needs a different
+ * locking class so our direct, non-irq-safe use of
+ * the queue's lock doesn't throw lockdep warnings.
+ */
+ skb_queue_head_init_class(&local->rx_skb_queue,
+ &ieee80211_rx_skb_queue_class);
INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&local->scan_work, ieee80211_scan_work);