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-rw-r--r--drivers/ide/ide.c19
1 files changed, 15 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide.c b/drivers/ide/ide.c
index 287a6620115..16890769dca 100644
--- a/drivers/ide/ide.c
+++ b/drivers/ide/ide.c
@@ -973,8 +973,8 @@ ide_settings_t *ide_find_setting_by_name (ide_drive_t *drive, char *name)
* @drive: drive
*
* Automatically remove all the driver specific settings for this
- * drive. This function may sleep and must not be called from IRQ
- * context. The caller must hold ide_setting_sem.
+ * drive. This function may not be called from IRQ context. The
+ * caller must hold ide_setting_sem.
*/
static void auto_remove_settings (ide_drive_t *drive)
@@ -1874,11 +1874,22 @@ void ide_unregister_subdriver(ide_drive_t *drive, ide_driver_t *driver)
{
unsigned long flags;
- down(&ide_setting_sem);
- spin_lock_irqsave(&ide_lock, flags);
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
ide_remove_proc_entries(drive->proc, driver->proc);
#endif
+ down(&ide_setting_sem);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&ide_lock, flags);
+ /*
+ * ide_setting_sem protects the settings list
+ * ide_lock protects the use of settings
+ *
+ * so we need to hold both, ide_settings_sem because we want to
+ * modify the settings list, and ide_lock because we cannot take
+ * a setting out that is being used.
+ *
+ * OTOH both ide_{read,write}_setting are only ever used under
+ * ide_setting_sem.
+ */
auto_remove_settings(drive);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ide_lock, flags);
up(&ide_setting_sem);