Commit a747c5ab authored by Jiri Kosina's avatar Jiri Kosina Committed by Linus Torvalds

ipmi: handle run_to_completion properly in deliver_recv_msg()

If run_to_completion flag is set, it means that we are running in a
single-threaded mode, and thus no locks are held.

This fixes a deadlock when IPMI notifier is being called during panic.
Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Acked-by: default avatarCorey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 279fbd0c
......@@ -323,9 +323,14 @@ static void deliver_recv_msg(struct smi_info *smi_info,
{
/* Deliver the message to the upper layer with the lock
released. */
if (smi_info->run_to_completion) {
ipmi_smi_msg_received(smi_info->intf, msg);
} else {
spin_unlock(&(smi_info->si_lock));
ipmi_smi_msg_received(smi_info->intf, msg);
spin_lock(&(smi_info->si_lock));
}
}
static void return_hosed_msg(struct smi_info *smi_info, int cCode)
......
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