From dbbcbb2d95dc4faa3b96d39f78032c85e8745c0c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:41:27 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] netdev: ehea: locking order correction

Nested locks always need to be taken in the same order.  This change factors
out the ehea_fw_handles.lock to make the locking order consistent.

Signed-off-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Cc: Christoph Raisch <raisch@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Jan-Bernd Themann <themann@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Thomas Klein <tklein@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
---
 drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c b/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
index 4ae65e876487..0cfc7e2ce395 100644
--- a/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
+++ b/drivers/net/ehea/ehea_main.c
@@ -2567,14 +2567,14 @@ static int ehea_down(struct net_device *dev)
 	if (port->state == EHEA_PORT_DOWN)
 		return 0;
 
+	mutex_lock(&ehea_fw_handles.lock);
+
 	down(&ehea_bcmc_regs.lock);
 	ehea_drop_multicast_list(dev);
 	ehea_broadcast_reg_helper(port, H_DEREG_BCMC);
 
 	ehea_free_interrupts(dev);
 
-	mutex_lock(&ehea_fw_handles.lock);
-
 	port->state = EHEA_PORT_DOWN;
 
 	ehea_update_bcmc_registrations();
-- 
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