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[PATCH] oprofile: fix potential deadlock on oprofilefs_lock 

nmi_cpu_setup() is called from hardirq context and acquires oprofilefs_lock.
alloc_event_buffer() and oprofilefs_ulong_from_user() acquire this lock
without disabling irqs, which could deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Jiri Kosina 2007-03-28 18:12:34 +02:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 6faee84b00
commit 4dfc896e90
2 changed files with 6 additions and 4 deletions
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drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c
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@ -70,11 +70,12 @@ void wake_up_buffer_waiter(void)
int alloc_event_buffer(void)
{
int err = -ENOMEM;
unsigned long flags;
spin_lock(&oprofilefs_lock);
spin_lock_irqsave(&oprofilefs_lock, flags);
buffer_size = fs_buffer_size;
buffer_watershed = fs_buffer_watershed;
spin_unlock(&oprofilefs_lock);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&oprofilefs_lock, flags);
if (buffer_watershed >= buffer_size)
return -EINVAL;

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drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.c
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@ -65,6 +65,7 @@ ssize_t oprofilefs_ulong_to_user(unsigned long val, char __user * buf, size_t co
int oprofilefs_ulong_from_user(unsigned long * val, char const __user * buf, size_t count)
{
char tmpbuf[TMPBUFSIZE];
unsigned long flags;
if (!count)
return 0;
@ -77,9 +78,9 @@ int oprofilefs_ulong_from_user(unsigned long * val, char const __user * buf, siz
if (copy_from_user(tmpbuf, buf, count))
return -EFAULT;
spin_lock(&oprofilefs_lock);
spin_lock_irqsave(&oprofilefs_lock, flags);
*val = simple_strtoul(tmpbuf, NULL, 0);
spin_unlock(&oprofilefs_lock);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&oprofilefs_lock, flags);
return 0;
}