On Tuesday 22 June 2004 12:47, Herbert Xu wrote:
> Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@web.de> wrote:
> > I just booted 2.6.7 on one of our systems and see this oops from dmesg:
> >
> > eth11: network connection down
> > Debug: sleeping function called from invalid context at
> > include/asm/semaphore.h:119
> > in_atomic():0, irqs_disabled():1
> > [<c01072ae>] dump_stack+0x1e/0x20
> > [<c0121690>] __might_sleep+0xb0/0xe0
> > [<c0433ecb>] netdev_run_todo+0x2b/0x290
> > [<c04338e9>] dev_ioctl+0x269/0x300
> > [<c0476e0c>] inet_ioctl+0x8c/0xa0
> > [<c04292c8>] sock_ioctl+0x138/0x350
> > [<c017e2b4>] sys_ioctl+0x144/0x2d0
> > [<c01063bf>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb
> >
> > The device eth11 is the (ifrename) mapped eth1:
> >
> > sk98lin: Network Device Driver v6.23
>
> OK the locking in this driver needs to be reviewed and simplified.
>
> In this case it's doing two spin_lock_irqsave() calls in a row on the
> same flags variable.
>
> Does this patch fix your problem?
>

Thanks a lot, your patch fixed this problem! Though I had to apply it 
manually, since patch somehow didn't like it. Maybe it got broken when you 
sent the mail?

Attached is the re-diffed patch (looks completely identical to me, but diff 
says the whitespace is different):


Thanks,
	Bernd