mac802154: tx: fix synced xmit deadlock

This patch reverts 6001d52 ("mac802154: tx: don't allow if down while sync tx"). This has side effects with stop callback which flush the transmit workqueue. The stop callback will wait until the workqueue is flushed and holding the rtnl lock. That means it can happen that the stop callback waits forever because it try to lock the rtnl mutex which is already hold by stop callback. Cc: Michael Hennerich <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Alexander Aring <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <[email protected]>
kmaincent · Dec 10, 2015 · c383835 · c383835
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diff --git a/net/mac802154/driver-ops.h b/net/mac802154/driver-ops.h
@@ -18,9 +18,6 @@ drv_xmit_async(struct ieee802154_local *local, struct sk_buff *skb)
 static inline int
 drv_xmit_sync(struct ieee802154_local *local, struct sk_buff *skb)
 {
-	/* don't allow other operations while sync xmit */
-	ASSERT_RTNL();
-
 	might_sleep();
 
 	return local->ops->xmit_sync(&local->hw, skb);

diff --git a/net/mac802154/tx.c b/net/mac802154/tx.c
@@ -38,12 +38,6 @@ void ieee802154_xmit_worker(struct work_struct *work)
 	struct net_device *dev = skb->dev;
 	int res;
 
-	rtnl_lock();
-
-	/* check if ifdown occurred while schedule */
-	if (!netif_running(dev))
-		goto err_tx;
-
 	res = drv_xmit_sync(local, skb);
 	if (res)
 		goto err_tx;
@@ -53,14 +47,11 @@ void ieee802154_xmit_worker(struct work_struct *work)
 	dev->stats.tx_packets++;
 	dev->stats.tx_bytes += skb->len;
 
-	rtnl_unlock();
-
 	return;
 
 err_tx:
 	/* Restart the netif queue on each sub_if_data object. */
 	ieee802154_wake_queue(&local->hw);
-	rtnl_unlock();
 	kfree_skb(skb);
 	netdev_dbg(dev, "transmission failed\n");
 }