staging: usbip: avoid deadlock in vhci_device_unlink_cleanup()
authorBernard Blackham <b-linuxgit@largestprime.net>
Thu, 6 Sep 2012 10:25:04 +0000 (20:25 +1000)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 6 Sep 2012 16:31:53 +0000 (09:31 -0700)
commit236742de5bfd2af772004ec829518856ff12b469
treeae05c790985a5dcfe0ebf690620c29d91c63c305
parent73295fe185e58b8c0b288fee61a8a994015ab4b2
staging: usbip: avoid deadlock in vhci_device_unlink_cleanup()

Almost all of usbip assumes that the_controller->lock is acquired
before vdev->priv_lock. The exception is in
vhci_device_unlink_cleanup(), where locks are acquired in the
reverse order. This leads to occasional deadlocks.

Fixing this is a bit fiddly, as the_controller->lock can't be held
when calling usb_hcd_unlink_urb_from_ep() in the middle of the list
traversal. As I can't rule out concurrent callers to this function
(perhaps it is safe?), the code here becomes slightly uglier - when
locks are dropped in the middle so the list may have emptied itself
(not even list_for_each_entry_safe is safe here).

Signed-off-by: Bernard Blackham <b-linuxgit@largestprime.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/usbip/vhci_hcd.c