From: Jiri Kosina Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:12:34 +0000 (+0200) Subject: [PATCH] oprofile: fix potential deadlock on oprofilefs_lock X-Git-Tag: firefly_0821_release~30487 X-Git-Url: http://demsky.eecs.uci.edu/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=4dfc896e90359df04c80da5ab08ec31e87846c43;p=firefly-linux-kernel-4.4.55.git [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 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c b/drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c index 00e937e9240e..e7fbac529935 100644 --- a/drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c +++ b/drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c @@ -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; 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; }