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authorCong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>2012-02-03 15:37:15 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2012-02-03 16:16:41 -0800
commit92618184cb92c5b39d4d8573572d576f9ccb3c28 (patch)
treec2cd2a7e360d6879ccc871df125a8de725949a53 /drivers/misc
parent99f02ef1f18631eb0a4e0ea0a3d56878dbcb4b90 (diff)
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lkdtm: avoid calling lkdtm_do_action() with spinlock held
lkdtm_do_action() may call sleeping functions like kmalloc(), so do not call it with spin lock held. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com> Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com> Reviewed-by: Dave Young <dyoung@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/misc')
-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/lkdtm.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
index 150cd7061b80..28adefe70f96 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
@@ -354,6 +354,7 @@ static void lkdtm_do_action(enum ctype which)
static void lkdtm_handler(void)
{
unsigned long flags;
+ bool do_it = false;
spin_lock_irqsave(&count_lock, flags);
count--;
@@ -361,10 +362,13 @@ static void lkdtm_handler(void)
cp_name_to_str(cpoint), cp_type_to_str(cptype), count);
if (count == 0) {
- lkdtm_do_action(cptype);
+ do_it = true;
count = cpoint_count;
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&count_lock, flags);
+
+ if (do_it)
+ lkdtm_do_action(cptype);
}
static int lkdtm_register_cpoint(enum cname which)