Bug 6773

Summary:	SoftMAC - hard-safe -> hard-unsafe lock order detected
Product:	Alternate Trees	Reporter:	Jure Repinc (jlp.bugs)
Component:	mm	Assignee:	Andrew Morton (akpm)
Status:	CLOSED PATCH_ALREADY_AVAILABLE
Severity:	normal	CC:	bunk
Priority:	P2
Hardware:	i386
OS:	Linux
Kernel Version:	2.6.17-mm4	Subsystem:
Regression:	---	Bisected commit-id:
Attachments:	output of dmesg

Description Jure Repinc 2006-06-30 01:50:38 UTC

Distribution: Gentoo Linux
Hardware Environment: HP Compaq nx6125 laptop with AMD Turion 64
Problem Description:
I just compilled the kernel and booted the machine. After logging into KDE I 
checked out dmesg output and found the message

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[ BUG: hard-safe -> hard-unsafe lock order detected! ]
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starting at line 660 of the dmesg.txt that I will attach.

Comment 1 Jure Repinc 2006-06-30 01:51:36 UTC

Created attachment 8461 [details]
output of dmesg

Comment 2 Arjan van de Ven 2006-06-30 02:33:09 UTC

real bug;
wireless_send_event is not allowed to be called in IRQ context, due to the
netlink locking rules

Comment 3 Jure Repinc 2006-07-01 18:29:00 UTC

I don't get this error message anymore in 2.6.17-mm5. Has the bug been fixed 
and is it OK if I close this bug?