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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2007-03-28 18:12:34 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-03-28 13:58:02 -0700
commit4dfc896e90359df04c80da5ab08ec31e87846c43 (patch)
tree1d68ae9c2e07c87f7cbc2f4b5c10d98a6c60a874 /drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.c
parent6faee84b006af55bab9908741dd76916c8450be2 (diff)
downloadlinux-4dfc896e90359df04c80da5ab08ec31e87846c43.tar.bz2
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.c5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.c b/drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.c
index 6e67b42ca46d..8543cb26cf34 100644
--- a/drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.c
+++ b/drivers/oprofile/oprofilefs.c
@@ -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;
}