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w1 - call request_module with w1 master mutex unlocked
authorHans-Frieder Vogt <hfvogt@gmx.net>
Sun, 6 Oct 2013 19:13:40 +0000 (21:13 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Mon, 7 Oct 2013 07:12:14 +0000 (00:12 -0700)
request_module for w1 slave modules needs to be called with the w1
master mutex unlocked. Because w1_attach_slave_device gets always(?)
called with mutex locked, we need to temporarily unlock the w1 master
mutex for the loading of the w1 slave module.

Signed-off by: Hans-Frieder Vogt <hfvogt@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.11+
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/w1/w1.c

index 0781217d239647a9639943614e2b78e80c15385b..fa932c2f7d97276b66199eda06b6edb6565208bb 100644 (file)
@@ -716,7 +716,10 @@ static int w1_attach_slave_device(struct w1_master *dev, struct w1_reg_num *rn)
        atomic_set(&sl->refcnt, 0);
        init_completion(&sl->released);
 
+       /* slave modules need to be loaded in a context with unlocked mutex */
+       mutex_unlock(&dev->mutex);
        request_module("w1-family-0x%0x", rn->family);
+       mutex_lock(&dev->mutex);
 
        spin_lock(&w1_flock);
        f = w1_family_registered(rn->family);