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| author | Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> | 2015-02-20 11:54:53 -0800 |
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| committer | Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> | 2015-02-20 11:54:53 -0800 |
| commit | 4c971aa78314253cce914ed29e3d90df3326d646 (patch) | |
| tree | a9dcf0b1fdc9e1aacff90afb5b3ab79983115dcc /drivers/misc/cxl/file.c | |
| parent | 4ba24fef3eb3b142197135223b90ced2f319cd53 (diff) | |
| parent | 290b799c390d77d27effee3ce312203aaa32ee74 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'next' into for-linus
Second round of updates for 3.20.
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/misc/cxl/file.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/misc/cxl/file.c | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/cxl/file.c b/drivers/misc/cxl/file.c index e9f2f10dbb3..b15d8113877 100644 --- a/drivers/misc/cxl/file.c +++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/file.c @@ -140,18 +140,20 @@ static long afu_ioctl_start_work(struct cxl_context *ctx, pr_devel("%s: pe: %i\n", __func__, ctx->pe); - mutex_lock(&ctx->status_mutex); - if (ctx->status != OPENED) { - rc = -EIO; - goto out; - } - + /* Do this outside the status_mutex to avoid a circular dependency with + * the locking in cxl_mmap_fault() */ if (copy_from_user(&work, uwork, sizeof(struct cxl_ioctl_start_work))) { rc = -EFAULT; goto out; } + mutex_lock(&ctx->status_mutex); + if (ctx->status != OPENED) { + rc = -EIO; + goto out; + } + /* * if any of the reserved fields are set or any of the unused * flags are set it's invalid |