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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/irq/proc.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/irq/proc.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 21 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/irq/proc.c b/kernel/irq/proc.c index ac1ba2f1103..9dc9bfd8a67 100644 --- a/kernel/irq/proc.c +++ b/kernel/irq/proc.c @@ -15,6 +15,23 @@ #include "internals.h" +/* + * Access rules: + * + * procfs protects read/write of /proc/irq/N/ files against a + * concurrent free of the interrupt descriptor. remove_proc_entry() + * immediately prevents new read/writes to happen and waits for + * already running read/write functions to complete. + * + * We remove the proc entries first and then delete the interrupt + * descriptor from the radix tree and free it. So it is guaranteed + * that irq_to_desc(N) is valid as long as the read/writes are + * permitted by procfs. + * + * The read from /proc/interrupts is a different problem because there + * is no protection. So the lookup and the access to irqdesc + * information must be protected by sparse_irq_lock. + */ static struct proc_dir_entry *root_irq_dir; #ifdef CONFIG_SMP @@ -437,9 +454,10 @@ int show_interrupts(struct seq_file *p, void *v) seq_putc(p, '\n'); } + irq_lock_sparse(); desc = irq_to_desc(i); if (!desc) - return 0; + goto outsparse; raw_spin_lock_irqsave(&desc->lock, flags); for_each_online_cpu(j) @@ -479,6 +497,8 @@ int show_interrupts(struct seq_file *p, void *v) seq_putc(p, '\n'); out: raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&desc->lock, flags); +outsparse: + irq_unlock_sparse(); return 0; } #endif |