Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753383AbcLFNrg (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2016 08:47:36 -0500 Received: from bes.se.axis.com ([195.60.68.10]:48616 "EHLO bes.se.axis.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751668AbcLFNrc (ORCPT ); Tue, 6 Dec 2016 08:47:32 -0500 From: Niklas Cassel To: Giuseppe Cavallaro , Alexandre Torgue CC: Niklas Cassel , , Subject: [PATCH] net: stmmac: do not call phy_ethtool_ksettings_set from atomic context Date: Tue, 6 Dec 2016 14:47:15 +0100 Message-ID: <1481032035-19018-1-git-send-email-niklass@axis.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.1.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Originating-IP: [10.0.5.60] X-ClientProxiedBy: XBOX03.axis.com (10.0.5.17) To XBOX02.axis.com (10.0.5.16) X-TM-AS-GCONF: 00 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2379 Lines: 46 From: Niklas Cassel >From what I can tell, spin_lock(&priv->lock) is not needed, since the phy_ethtool_ksettings_set call is not given the priv struct. phy_start_aneg takes the phydev->lock. Calls to phy_adjust_link from phy_state_machine also takes the phydev->lock. [ 13.718319] BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:97 [ 13.726717] in_atomic(): 1, irqs_disabled(): 0, pid: 1307, name: ethtool [ 13.742115] Hardware name: Axis ARTPEC-6 Platform [ 13.746829] [<80110568>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<8010c2bc>] (show_stack+0x18/0x1c) [ 13.754575] [<8010c2bc>] (show_stack) from [<80433484>] (dump_stack+0x80/0xa0) [ 13.761801] [<80433484>] (dump_stack) from [<80145428>] (___might_sleep+0x108/0x170) [ 13.769554] [<80145428>] (___might_sleep) from [<806c9b50>] (mutex_lock+0x24/0x44) [ 13.777128] [<806c9b50>] (mutex_lock) from [<8050cbc0>] (phy_start_aneg+0x1c/0x13c) [ 13.784783] [<8050cbc0>] (phy_start_aneg) from [<8050d338>] (phy_ethtool_ksettings_set+0x98/0xd0) [ 13.793656] [<8050d338>] (phy_ethtool_ksettings_set) from [<80517adc>] (stmmac_ethtool_set_link_ksettings+0xa0/0xb4) [ 13.804184] [<80517adc>] (stmmac_ethtool_set_link_ksettings) from [<805c5138>] (ethtool_set_settings+0xd4/0x13c) [ 13.814358] [<805c5138>] (ethtool_set_settings) from [<805c9718>] (dev_ethtool+0x13c4/0x211c) [ 13.822882] [<805c9718>] (dev_ethtool) from [<805dc7c0>] (dev_ioctl+0x480/0x8e0) [ 13.830291] [<805dc7c0>] (dev_ioctl) from [<80260e34>] (do_vfs_ioctl+0x94/0xa00) [ 13.837699] [<80260e34>] (do_vfs_ioctl) from [<802617dc>] (SyS_ioctl+0x3c/0x60) [ 13.845011] [<802617dc>] (SyS_ioctl) from [<801088bc>] (__sys_trace_return+0x0/0x10) Signed-off-by: Niklas Cassel --- drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_ethtool.c | 2 -- 1 file changed, 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_ethtool.c b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_ethtool.c index d5a8122b6033..6ab7e2bdcadd 100644 --- a/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_ethtool.c +++ b/drivers/net/ethernet/stmicro/stmmac/stmmac_ethtool.c @@ -406,9 +406,7 @@ stmmac_ethtool_set_link_ksettings(struct net_device *dev, return 0; } - spin_lock(&priv->lock); rc = phy_ethtool_ksettings_set(phy, cmd); - spin_unlock(&priv->lock); return rc; } -- 2.1.4