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authorJiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>2008-09-09 01:23:03 +0200
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2008-10-14 23:50:59 +0200
commitd92870ddd248e8c2562a8c4047885d3ad221ece7 (patch)
tree27dc3359f8ed8beff068eda6feae205f0d136a79 /drivers
parentd1d3a5f6eaee337d793ab9ac28e696f0262c3c8a (diff)
downloadlinux-d92870ddd248e8c2562a8c4047885d3ad221ece7.tar.bz2
HID: fix tty<->hid deadlock
hid_compat_load() runs on the default workqueue, it request_module(), it execs modprobe, it exits, tty flushes default workqueue, it hangs, because we are still in it. Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> Tested-by: <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/hid/hid-core.c11
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
index 18b277a833f0..63c8ce5540fe 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
@@ -1657,6 +1657,7 @@ static void hid_compat_load(struct work_struct *ws)
request_module("hid-dummy");
}
static DECLARE_WORK(hid_compat_work, hid_compat_load);
+static struct workqueue_struct *hid_compat_wq;
#endif
static int __init hid_init(void)
@@ -1674,7 +1675,12 @@ static int __init hid_init(void)
goto err_bus;
#ifdef CONFIG_HID_COMPAT
- schedule_work(&hid_compat_work);
+ hid_compat_wq = create_workqueue("hid_compat");
+ if (!hid_compat_wq) {
+ hidraw_exit();
+ goto err;
+ }
+ queue_work(hid_compat_wq, &hid_compat_work);
#endif
return 0;
@@ -1686,6 +1692,9 @@ err:
static void __exit hid_exit(void)
{
+#ifdef CONFIG_HID_COMPAT
+ destroy_workqueue(hid_compat_wq);
+#endif
hidraw_exit();
bus_unregister(&hid_bus_type);
}