isdn: fix possible circular locking dependency
authorXiaotian Feng <xtfeng@gmail.com>
Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:07:04 +0000 (23:07 +0000)
committerDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Fri, 23 Oct 2009 01:27:53 +0000 (18:27 -0700)
There's a circular locking dependency:

---> isdn_net_get_locked_lp
    --->lock &nd->queue_lock
    --->lock &nd->queue->xmit_lock
    .....................
    ---->unlock &nd->queue_lock

---> isdn_net_writebuf_skb (called with &nd->queue->xmit_lock locked)
    ---->isdn_net_inc_frame_cnt
         ---->isdn_net_device_busy
              ----> lock &nd->queue_lock

This will trigger lockdep warnings:

 =======================================================
 [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ]
 2.6.32-rc4-testing #7
 -------------------------------------------------------
 ipppd/28379 is trying to acquire lock:
 (&netdev->queue_lock){......}, at: [<e62ad0fd>] isdn_net_device_busy+0x2c/0x74 [isdn]

 but task is already holding lock:
 (&netdev->local->xmit_lock){+.....}, at: [<e62aefc2>] isdn_net_write_super+0x3f/0x6e [isdn]

 which lock already depends on the new lock.
 .......

 We don't need to lock nd->queue->xmit_lock to protect single
isdn_net_lp_busy(). This can fix above lockdep warnings.

Reported-and-tested-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: Xiaotian Feng <xtfeng@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_net.h

index 74032d0..7511f08 100644 (file)
@@ -83,19 +83,19 @@ static __inline__ isdn_net_local * isdn_net_get_locked_lp(isdn_net_dev *nd)
 
        spin_lock_irqsave(&nd->queue_lock, flags);
        lp = nd->queue;         /* get lp on top of queue */
-       spin_lock(&nd->queue->xmit_lock);
        while (isdn_net_lp_busy(nd->queue)) {
-               spin_unlock(&nd->queue->xmit_lock);
                nd->queue = nd->queue->next;
                if (nd->queue == lp) { /* not found -- should never happen */
                        lp = NULL;
                        goto errout;
                }
-               spin_lock(&nd->queue->xmit_lock);
        }
        lp = nd->queue;
        nd->queue = nd->queue->next;
+       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&nd->queue_lock, flags);
+       spin_lock(&lp->xmit_lock);
        local_bh_disable();
+       return lp;
 errout:
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&nd->queue_lock, flags);
        return lp;