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authorAlexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>2014-02-11 02:25:35 +0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-02-11 04:01:40 +0400
commita3eb7fbb41eb8d6e22d491741b8c5d5aa6cb069a (patch)
treee82b1ed3c523ba903a104ad4e6f6f09fd76dd314 /drivers/message
parent3cf8ca1c250d3c3d8bf61f20bd71acd1876bf777 (diff)
downloadlinux-a3eb7fbb41eb8d6e22d491741b8c5d5aa6cb069a.tar.xz
drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c: fix deadlock in compat_ioctl(I2OGETIOPS)
i2o_cfg_compat_ioctl(I2OGETIOPS) locks i2o_cfg_mutex and then calls i2o_cfg_ioctl(I2OGETIOPS) that locks i2o_cfg_mutex as well. A deadlock is guaranteed. Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org). Signed-off-by: Alexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/message')
-rw-r--r--drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c4
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c b/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c
index a60c188c2bd9..04bd3b6de401 100644
--- a/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c
+++ b/drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c
@@ -754,19 +754,19 @@ static long i2o_cfg_compat_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd,
unsigned long arg)
{
int ret;
- mutex_lock(&i2o_cfg_mutex);
switch (cmd) {
case I2OGETIOPS:
ret = i2o_cfg_ioctl(file, cmd, arg);
break;
case I2OPASSTHRU32:
+ mutex_lock(&i2o_cfg_mutex);
ret = i2o_cfg_passthru32(file, cmd, arg);
+ mutex_unlock(&i2o_cfg_mutex);
break;
default:
ret = -ENOIOCTLCMD;
break;
}
- mutex_unlock(&i2o_cfg_mutex);
return ret;
}