When a process tries to read/write a disconnected i2c device, it receives a signal (e.g. ctrl-c) and the kernel gets stuck.
BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 61s! [I2CEEpromTest:392]
NIP: c01628f8 LR: c01628f0 CTR: c00177cc
REGS: c39abd70 TRAP: 0901 Not tainted (2.6.25.7-alcore)
MSR: 00009032 <EE,ME,IR,DR> CR: 42042048 XER: 20000000
TASK = c3889bd0[392] 'I2CEEpromTest' THREAD: c39aa000
GPR00: 00009000 c39abe20 c3889bd0 c39075c8 c39abe28 00000001 00000000 00000001
GPR08: c3889bd0 c39075c8 00009032 c39abe34 00002437
NIP [c01628f8] cpm_i2c_xfer+0x5fc/0x6d0
LR [c01628f0] cpm_i2c_xfer+0x5f4/0x6d0
Call Trace:
[c39abe20] [c0162924] cpm_i2c_xfer+0x628/0x6d0 (unreliable)
[c39abe90] [c015f6a0] i2c_transfer+0x88/0xb4
[c39abeb0] [c0160164] i2c_master_recv+0x48/0x6c
[c39abed0] [c01618dc] i2cdev_read+0x50/0xe4
[c39abef0] [c0068b24] vfs_read+0xc4/0x108
[c39abf10] [c0068f4c] sys_read+0x4c/0x90
[c39abf40] [c000d348] ret_from_syscall+0x0/0x38
Instruction dump:
3bc00064 92610010 3bf201c8 92810014 3b61
This happen because though the wait_event_interruptible_timeout takes the
signals into account, the driver does not handle them.
We propose to change the wait_event_interruptible_timeout with
wait_event_timeout, leaving the signals to be handled in other points
on the upper layers.
Signed-off-by: Bruno Morelli <bruno@evidence.eu.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Trimarchi <michael@evidence.eu.com>
Acked-by: Jochen Friedrich <jochen@scram.de>
[ben-linux@fluff.org: fix title for patch]
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
dc1972d027