[PATCH 6/9] blackfin: Fix possible deadlock in decode_address()

[Anton Vorontsov]

Oleg Nesterov found an interesting deadlock possibility:

> sysrq_showregs_othercpus() does smp_call_function(showacpu)
> and showacpu() show_stack()->decode_address(). Now suppose that IPI
> interrupts the task holding read_lock(tasklist).

To fix this, blackfin should not grab the write_ variant of the
tasklist lock, read_ one is enough.

Suggested-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <anton.vorontsov@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
 arch/blackfin/kernel/trace.c |    6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/blackfin/kernel/trace.c b/arch/blackfin/kernel/trace.c
index d08f0e3..f7f7a18 100644
--- a/arch/blackfin/kernel/trace.c
+++ b/arch/blackfin/kernel/trace.c
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ void decode_address(char *buf, unsigned long address)
 {
 	struct task_struct *p;
 	struct mm_struct *mm;
-	unsigned long flags, offset;
+	unsigned long offset;
 	struct rb_node *n;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_KALLSYMS
@@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ void decode_address(char *buf, unsigned long address)
 	 * mappings of all our processes and see if we can't be a whee
 	 * bit more specific
 	 */
-	write_lock_irqsave(&tasklist_lock, flags);
+	read_lock(&tasklist_lock);
 	for_each_process(p) {
 		struct task_struct *t;
 
@@ -186,7 +186,7 @@ __continue:
 	sprintf(buf, "/* kernel dynamic memory */");
 
 done:
-	write_unlock_irqrestore(&tasklist_lock, flags);
+	read_unlock(&tasklist_lock);
 }
 
 #define EXPAND_LEN ((1 << CONFIG_DEBUG_BFIN_HWTRACE_EXPAND_LEN) * 256 - 1)
-- 
1.7.9.2

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