netdev: ehea: locking order correction
authorDaniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Fri, 28 Mar 2008 21:41:27 +0000 (14:41 -0700)
committerJeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Sat, 29 Mar 2008 02:14:33 +0000 (22:14 -0400)
Nested locks always need to be taken in the same order.  This change factors
out the ehea_fw_handles.lock to make the locking order consistent.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: Christoph Raisch <raisch@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c

index 4ae65e876487693e7d6eeb2b29400b2aeca15602..0cfc7e2ce395dbd411d50e8bd475d0cf787e79ef 100644 (file)
@@ -2567,14 +2567,14 @@ static int ehea_down(struct net_device *dev)
        if (port->state == EHEA_PORT_DOWN)
                return 0;
 
+       mutex_lock(&ehea_fw_handles.lock);
+
        down(&ehea_bcmc_regs.lock);
        ehea_drop_multicast_list(dev);
        ehea_broadcast_reg_helper(port, H_DEREG_BCMC);
 
        ehea_free_interrupts(dev);
 
-       mutex_lock(&ehea_fw_handles.lock);
-
        port->state = EHEA_PORT_DOWN;
 
        ehea_update_bcmc_registrations();