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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>
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Cong Wang 2012-02-03 15:37:15 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 99f02ef1f1
commit 92618184cb
1 changed files with 5 additions and 1 deletions
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drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
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@ -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)