wireless: convert reg_regdb_search_lock to mutex
authorJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:40:59 +0000 (15:40 -0400)
committerJohn W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 19:37:20 +0000 (15:37 -0400)
Stanse discovered that kmalloc is being called with GFP_KERNEL while
holding this spinlock.  The spinlock can be a mutex instead, which also
enables the removal of the unlock/lock around the lock/unlock of
cfg80211_mutex and the call to set_regdom.

Reported-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
net/wireless/reg.c

index ed89c59..81fcafc 100644 (file)
@@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ struct reg_regdb_search_request {
 };
 
 static LIST_HEAD(reg_regdb_search_list);
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(reg_regdb_search_lock);
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(reg_regdb_search_mutex);
 
 static void reg_regdb_search(struct work_struct *work)
 {
@@ -332,7 +332,7 @@ static void reg_regdb_search(struct work_struct *work)
        const struct ieee80211_regdomain *curdom, *regdom;
        int i, r;
 
-       spin_lock(&reg_regdb_search_lock);
+       mutex_lock(&reg_regdb_search_mutex);
        while (!list_empty(&reg_regdb_search_list)) {
                request = list_first_entry(&reg_regdb_search_list,
                                           struct reg_regdb_search_request,
@@ -346,18 +346,16 @@ static void reg_regdb_search(struct work_struct *work)
                                r = reg_copy_regd(&regdom, curdom);
                                if (r)
                                        break;
-                               spin_unlock(&reg_regdb_search_lock);
                                mutex_lock(&cfg80211_mutex);
                                set_regdom(regdom);
                                mutex_unlock(&cfg80211_mutex);
-                               spin_lock(&reg_regdb_search_lock);
                                break;
                        }
                }
 
                kfree(request);
        }
-       spin_unlock(&reg_regdb_search_lock);
+       mutex_unlock(&reg_regdb_search_mutex);
 }
 
 static DECLARE_WORK(reg_regdb_work, reg_regdb_search);
@@ -375,9 +373,9 @@ static void reg_regdb_query(const char *alpha2)
 
        memcpy(request->alpha2, alpha2, 2);
 
-       spin_lock(&reg_regdb_search_lock);
+       mutex_lock(&reg_regdb_search_mutex);
        list_add_tail(&request->list, &reg_regdb_search_list);
-       spin_unlock(&reg_regdb_search_lock);
+       mutex_unlock(&reg_regdb_search_mutex);
 
        schedule_work(&reg_regdb_work);
 }