[PATCH] regulator: Fix deadlock during regulator registration

From: Jon Hunter
Date: Wed Mar 30 2016 - 12:09:13 EST


Commit 5e3ca2b349b1 ("regulator: Try to resolve regulators supplies on
registration") added a call to regulator_resolve_supply() within
regulator_register() where the regulator_list_mutex is held. This causes
a deadlock to occur on the Tegra114 Dalmore board when the palmas PMIC
is registered because regulator_register_resolve_supply() calls
regulator_dev_lookup() which may try to acquire the regulator_list_mutex
again.

Fix this by releasing the mutex before calling
regulator_register_resolve_supply() and update the error exit path to
ensure the mutex is released on an error.

[Made commit message more legible -- broonie]

Signed-off-by: Jon Hunter <jonathanh@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/regulator/core.c | 10 +++++-----
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/regulator/core.c b/drivers/regulator/core.c
index ab1838138877..fd0e4e37f4e1 100644
--- a/drivers/regulator/core.c
+++ b/drivers/regulator/core.c
@@ -3991,12 +3991,11 @@ regulator_register(const struct regulator_desc *regulator_desc,
}

rdev_init_debugfs(rdev);
+ mutex_unlock(&regulator_list_mutex);

/* try to resolve regulators supply since a new one was registered */
class_for_each_device(&regulator_class, NULL, NULL,
regulator_register_resolve_supply);
-out:
- mutex_unlock(&regulator_list_mutex);
kfree(config);
return rdev;

@@ -4007,15 +4006,16 @@ scrub:
regulator_ena_gpio_free(rdev);
device_unregister(&rdev->dev);
/* device core frees rdev */
- rdev = ERR_PTR(ret);
goto out;

wash:
regulator_ena_gpio_free(rdev);
clean:
kfree(rdev);
- rdev = ERR_PTR(ret);
- goto out;
+out:
+ mutex_unlock(&regulator_list_mutex);
+ kfree(config);
+ return ERR_PTR(ret);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(regulator_register);

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2.8.0.rc3