[media] Revert "[media] videobuf_vm_{open,close} race fixes"
authorHans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Fri, 3 Jan 2014 11:10:49 +0000 (08:10 -0300)
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
Tue, 4 Feb 2014 08:29:46 +0000 (06:29 -0200)
commitcca36e2eecec2b8fc869a50ffd3bd0adeed92b8b
tree88a5b83d47de51a8af1877241dbc753a5ad665ea
parent50c88544d225baadd6de1c4365d4ed16cc942a37
[media] Revert "[media] videobuf_vm_{open,close} race fixes"

This reverts commit a242f426108c284049a69710f871cc9f11b13e61.

That commit actually caused deadlocks, rather then fixing them.

If ext_lock is set to NULL (otherwise videobuf_queue_lock doesn't do
anything), then you get this deadlock:

The driver's mmap function calls videobuf_mmap_mapper which calls
videobuf_queue_lock on q. videobuf_mmap_mapper calls  __videobuf_mmap_mapper,
__videobuf_mmap_mapper calls videobuf_vm_open and videobuf_vm_open
calls videobuf_queue_lock on q (introduced by above patch): deadlocked.

This affects drivers using dma-contig and dma-vmalloc. Only dma-sg is
not affected since it doesn't call videobuf_vm_open from __videobuf_mmap_mapper.

Most drivers these days have a non-NULL ext_lock. Those that still use
NULL there are all fairly obscure drivers, which is why this hasn't been
seen earlier.

Since everything worked perfectly fine for many years I prefer to just
revert this patch rather than trying to fix it. videobuf is quite fragile
and I rather not touch it too much. Work is (slowly) progressing to move
everything over to vb2 or at the very least use non-NULL ext_lock in
videobuf.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # for v3.11 and up
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Reported-by: Pete Eberlein <pete@sensoray.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf-dma-contig.c
drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf-dma-sg.c
drivers/media/v4l2-core/videobuf-vmalloc.c