From 2cec802980727f1daa46d8c31b411e083d49d7a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Hutchings Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2010 18:40:29 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] [SCSI] qla1280: Drop host_lock while requesting firmware request_firmware() may sleep and it appears to be safe to release the spinlock here. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: James Bottomley --- drivers/scsi/qla1280.c | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/qla1280.c b/drivers/scsi/qla1280.c index 8371d917a9a..49ac4148493 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/qla1280.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/qla1280.c @@ -1640,8 +1640,10 @@ qla1280_load_firmware_pio(struct scsi_qla_host *ha) uint16_t mb[MAILBOX_REGISTER_COUNT], i; int err; + spin_unlock_irq(ha->host->host_lock); err = request_firmware(&fw, ql1280_board_tbl[ha->devnum].fwname, &ha->pdev->dev); + spin_lock_irq(ha->host->host_lock); if (err) { printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to load image \"%s\" err %d\n", ql1280_board_tbl[ha->devnum].fwname, err); @@ -1699,8 +1701,10 @@ qla1280_load_firmware_dma(struct scsi_qla_host *ha) return -ENOMEM; #endif + spin_unlock_irq(ha->host->host_lock); err = request_firmware(&fw, ql1280_board_tbl[ha->devnum].fwname, &ha->pdev->dev); + spin_lock_irq(ha->host->host_lock); if (err) { printk(KERN_ERR "Failed to load image \"%s\" err %d\n", ql1280_board_tbl[ha->devnum].fwname, err); -- 2.11.4.GIT