[PATCH 3.19.y-ckt 93/99] dma-debug: avoid spinlock recursion when disabling dma-debug

From: Kamal Mostafa
Date: Thu Jul 07 2016 - 14:41:28 EST


3.19.8-ckt23 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: =?UTF-8?q?Ville=20Syrj=C3=A4l=C3=A4?= <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 3017cd63f26fc655d56875aaf497153ba60e9edf upstream.

With netconsole (at least) the pr_err("... disablingn") call can
recurse back into the dma-debug code, where it'll try to grab
free_entries_lock again. Avoid the problem by doing the printk after
dropping the lock.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1463678421-18683-1-git-send-email-ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ville SyrjÃlà <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
lib/dma-debug.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/dma-debug.c b/lib/dma-debug.c
index 57f452f..a0a6210 100644
--- a/lib/dma-debug.c
+++ b/lib/dma-debug.c
@@ -657,9 +657,9 @@ static struct dma_debug_entry *dma_entry_alloc(void)
spin_lock_irqsave(&free_entries_lock, flags);

if (list_empty(&free_entries)) {
- pr_err("DMA-API: debugging out of memory - disabling\n");
global_disable = true;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&free_entries_lock, flags);
+ pr_err("DMA-API: debugging out of memory - disabling\n");
return NULL;
}

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2.7.4