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authorJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-09-07 15:07:55 -0400
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>2012-09-07 15:07:55 -0400
commitfac805f8c198092de9a2842efd7f5022e2937b18 (patch)
tree7557809c373f97a343c427d8fded0696060394ce /kernel/panic.c
parent2461c7d60f9f3821274e4acf9019cba8b82c94b5 (diff)
parentf10723841e624c0726c70356b31d91befed01dd6 (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless
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diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index d2a5f4ecc6d..e1b2822fff9 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -75,6 +75,14 @@ void panic(const char *fmt, ...)
int state = 0;
/*
+ * Disable local interrupts. This will prevent panic_smp_self_stop
+ * from deadlocking the first cpu that invokes the panic, since
+ * there is nothing to prevent an interrupt handler (that runs
+ * after the panic_lock is acquired) from invoking panic again.
+ */
+ local_irq_disable();
+
+ /*
* It's possible to come here directly from a panic-assertion and
* not have preempt disabled. Some functions called from here want
* preempt to be disabled. No point enabling it later though...