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Commit 03f47e88 authored by Stephen M. Cameron's avatar Stephen M. Cameron Committed by Linus Torvalds
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cciss: fix broken mutex usage in ioctl



If a new logical drive is added and the CCISS_REGNEWD ioctl is invoked
(as is normal with the Array Configuration Utility) the process will
hang as below.  It attempts to acquire the same mutex twice, once in
do_ioctl() and once in cciss_unlocked_open().  The BKL was recursive,
the mutex isn't.

  Linux version 3.10.0-rc2 (scameron@localhost.localdomain) (gcc version 4.4.7 20120313 (Red Hat 4.4.7-3) (GCC) ) #1 SMP Fri May 24 14:32:12 CDT 2013
  [...]
  acu             D 0000000000000001     0  3246   3191 0x00000080
  Call Trace:
    schedule+0x29/0x70
    schedule_preempt_disabled+0xe/0x10
    __mutex_lock_slowpath+0x17b/0x220
    mutex_lock+0x2b/0x50
    cciss_unlocked_open+0x2f/0x110 [cciss]
    __blkdev_get+0xd3/0x470
    blkdev_get+0x5c/0x1e0
    register_disk+0x182/0x1a0
    add_disk+0x17c/0x310
    cciss_add_disk+0x13a/0x170 [cciss]
    cciss_update_drive_info+0x39b/0x480 [cciss]
    rebuild_lun_table+0x258/0x370 [cciss]
    cciss_ioctl+0x34f/0x470 [cciss]
    do_ioctl+0x49/0x70 [cciss]
    __blkdev_driver_ioctl+0x28/0x30
    blkdev_ioctl+0x200/0x7b0
    block_ioctl+0x3c/0x40
    do_vfs_ioctl+0x89/0x350
    SyS_ioctl+0xa1/0xb0
    system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b

This mutex usage was added into the ioctl path when the big kernel lock
was removed.  As it turns out, these paths are all thread safe anyway
(or can easily be made so) and we don't want ioctl() to be single
threaded in any case.

Signed-off-by: default avatarStephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent f000cfdd
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