This patch changes the spinlock to mutex for the available fakelb phy list. When holding the spinlock the ieee802154_unregister_hw is called which holding the rtnl_mutex, in that case we get a "BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context" error. We simple change the spinlock to mutex which allows to hold the rtnl lock there.

Signed-off-by Alexander Aring <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by Marcel Holtmann <[email protected]>

Signed-off-by Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/net/ieee802154/fakelb.c |   14 +++++++-------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

drivers/net/ieee802154/fakelb.c +7 -7

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
 static int numlbs = 2;
 
 static LIST_HEAD(fakelb_phys);
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(fakelb_phys_lock);
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(fakelb_phys_lock);
 
 static LIST_HEAD(fakelb_ifup_phys);
 static DEFINE_RWLOCK(fakelb_ifup_phys_lock);

@@ -180,9 +180,9 @@ static int fakelb_add_one(struct device
 	if (err)
 		goto err_reg;
 
-	spin_lock(&fakelb_phys_lock);
+	mutex_lock(&fakelb_phys_lock);
 	list_add_tail(&phy->list, &fakelb_phys);
-	spin_unlock(&fakelb_phys_lock);
+	mutex_unlock(&fakelb_phys_lock);
 
 	return 0;

@@ -214,10 +214,10 @@ static int fakelb_probe(struct platform_
 	return 0;
 
 err_slave:
-	spin_lock(&fakelb_phys_lock);
+	mutex_lock(&fakelb_phys_lock);
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(phy, tmp, &fakelb_phys, list)
 		fakelb_del(phy);
-	spin_unlock(&fakelb_phys_lock);
+	mutex_unlock(&fakelb_phys_lock);
 	return err;
 }

@@ -225,10 +225,10 @@ static int fakelb_remove(struct platform
 {
 	struct fakelb_phy *phy, *tmp;
 
-	spin_lock(&fakelb_phys_lock);
+	mutex_lock(&fakelb_phys_lock);
 	list_for_each_entry_safe(phy, tmp, &fakelb_phys, list)
 		fakelb_del(phy);
-	spin_unlock(&fakelb_phys_lock);
+	mutex_unlock(&fakelb_phys_lock);
 	return 0;
 }

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.4/fakelb-fix-schedule-while-atomic.patch