[PATCH] hpsa: do not sleep in atomic context in rmmod path.

[Stephen M. Cameron]

From: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Don't call kthread_stop with a spin lock held and interrupts
disabled because kthread_stop will sleep waiting for the thread
to stop.

Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/scsi/hpsa.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
index 865d452..a0ba29d 100644
--- a/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
+++ b/drivers/scsi/hpsa.c
@@ -4269,7 +4269,9 @@ static void stop_controller_lockup_detector(struct ctlr_info *h)
 	remove_ctlr_from_lockup_detector_list(h);
 	/* If the list of ctlr's to monitor is empty, stop the thread */
 	if (list_empty(&hpsa_ctlr_list)) {
+		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lockup_detector_lock, flags);
 		kthread_stop(hpsa_lockup_detector);
+		spin_lock_irqsave(&lockup_detector_lock, flags);
 		hpsa_lockup_detector = NULL;
 	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&lockup_detector_lock, flags);

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