ACPI: Run fixed event device notifications in process context

Currently, notify callbacks for fixed button events are run from
interrupt context.  That is not necessary and after commit 0bf6368ee8f2
(ACPI / button: Add ACPI Button event via netlink routine) it causes
netlink routines to be called from interrupt context which is not
correct.

Also, that is different from non-fixed device events (including
non-fixed button events) whose notify callbacks are all executed from
process context.

For the above reasons, make fixed button device notify callbacks run
in process context which will avoid the deadlock when using netlink
to report button events to user space.

Fixes: 0bf6368ee8f2 (ACPI / button: Add ACPI Button event via netlink routine)
Link: https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/8/21/606
Reported-by: Benjamin Block <bebl@mageta.org>
Reported-by: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de>
Signed-off-by: Lan Tianyu <tianyu.lan@intel.com>
[rjw: Function names, subject and changelog.]
Cc: 3.15+ <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.15+
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>

diff --git a/drivers/acpi/scan.c b/drivers/acpi/scan.c
index fd17fe7f93f27162f6fedaabadf30b1eda66b788..9a9298994e262cdbb17ee883009bbae6d2d082d3 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/acpi/scan.c
+++ b/drivers/acpi/scan.c
@@ -922,12 +922,17 @@ static void acpi_device_notify(acpi_handle handle, u32 event, void *data)
        device->driver->ops.notify(device, event);
 }
 
-static acpi_status acpi_device_notify_fixed(void *data)
+static void acpi_device_notify_fixed(void *data)
 {
        struct acpi_device *device = data;
 
        /* Fixed hardware devices have no handles */
        acpi_device_notify(NULL, ACPI_FIXED_HARDWARE_EVENT, device);
+}
+
+static acpi_status acpi_device_fixed_event(void *data)
+{
+       acpi_os_execute(OSL_NOTIFY_HANDLER, acpi_device_notify_fixed, data);
        return AE_OK;
 }
 
@@ -938,12 +943,12 @@ static int acpi_device_install_notify_handler(struct acpi_device *device)
        if (device->device_type == ACPI_BUS_TYPE_POWER_BUTTON)
                status =
                    acpi_install_fixed_event_handler(ACPI_EVENT_POWER_BUTTON,
-                                                    acpi_device_notify_fixed,
+                                                    acpi_device_fixed_event,
                                                     device);
        else if (device->device_type == ACPI_BUS_TYPE_SLEEP_BUTTON)
                status =
                    acpi_install_fixed_event_handler(ACPI_EVENT_SLEEP_BUTTON,
-                                                    acpi_device_notify_fixed,
+                                                    acpi_device_fixed_event,
                                                     device);
        else
                status = acpi_install_notify_handler(device->handle,
@@ -960,10 +965,10 @@ static void acpi_device_remove_notify_handler(struct acpi_device *device)
 {
        if (device->device_type == ACPI_BUS_TYPE_POWER_BUTTON)
                acpi_remove_fixed_event_handler(ACPI_EVENT_POWER_BUTTON,
-                                               acpi_device_notify_fixed);
+                                               acpi_device_fixed_event);
        else if (device->device_type == ACPI_BUS_TYPE_SLEEP_BUTTON)
                acpi_remove_fixed_event_handler(ACPI_EVENT_SLEEP_BUTTON,
-                                               acpi_device_notify_fixed);
+                                               acpi_device_fixed_event);
        else
                acpi_remove_notify_handler(device->handle, ACPI_DEVICE_NOTIFY,
                                           acpi_device_notify);