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| author | Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> | 2009-03-31 15:25:18 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-04-01 08:59:29 -0700 |
| commit | 66c1ca019078220dc1bf968f2bb18421100ef147 (patch) | |
| tree | b01d28d74bab9d9e3f0f24841a80a272d6f6520a /drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c | |
| parent | 8636a9240cc93efa6b36f4cfe6253e0574f832c6 (diff) | |
fbmem: fix fb_info->lock and mm->mmap_sem circular locking dependency
Fix a circular locking dependency in the frame buffer console driver
pushing down the mutex fb_info->lock.
Circular locking dependecies occur calling the blocking
fb_notifier_call_chain() with fb_info->lock held. Notifier callbacks can
try to acquire mm->mmap_sem, while fb_mmap() acquires the locks in the
reverse order mm->mmap_sem => fb_info->lock.
Tested-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c b/drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c index b6449470106..0bb13df0fa8 100644 --- a/drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/lcd.c @@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ static int fb_notifier_callback(struct notifier_block *self, if (!ld->ops) return 0; + if (!lock_fb_info(evdata->info)) + return -ENODEV; mutex_lock(&ld->ops_lock); if (!ld->ops->check_fb || ld->ops->check_fb(ld, evdata->info)) { if (event == FB_EVENT_BLANK) { @@ -51,6 +53,7 @@ static int fb_notifier_callback(struct notifier_block *self, } } mutex_unlock(&ld->ops_lock); + unlock_fb_info(evdata->info); return 0; } |