[PATCH 05/10] pstore: Convert "records_list" locking to mutex

From: Kees Cook
Date: Wed May 06 2020 - 11:22:06 EST


The pstorefs internal list lock doesn't need to be a spinlock and will
create problems when trying to access the list in the subsequent patch
that will walk the pstorefs records during pstore_unregister(). Change
this to a mutex to avoid may_sleep() warnings when unregistering devices.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
fs/pstore/inode.c | 17 +++++++----------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/fs/pstore/inode.c b/fs/pstore/inode.c
index 5cc09cb315f9..92ebcc75434f 100644
--- a/fs/pstore/inode.c
+++ b/fs/pstore/inode.c
@@ -22,14 +22,13 @@
#include <linux/magic.h>
#include <linux/pstore.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
-#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/uaccess.h>

#include "internal.h"

#define PSTORE_NAMELEN 64

-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(records_list_lock);
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(records_list_lock);
static LIST_HEAD(records_list);

struct pstore_private {
@@ -192,13 +191,12 @@ static int pstore_unlink(struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry)
static void pstore_evict_inode(struct inode *inode)
{
struct pstore_private *p = inode->i_private;
- unsigned long flags;

clear_inode(inode);
if (p) {
- spin_lock_irqsave(&records_list_lock, flags);
+ mutex_lock(&records_list_lock);
list_del(&p->list);
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&records_list_lock, flags);
+ mutex_unlock(&records_list_lock);
free_pstore_private(p);
}
}
@@ -297,12 +295,11 @@ int pstore_mkfile(struct dentry *root, struct pstore_record *record)
int rc = 0;
char name[PSTORE_NAMELEN];
struct pstore_private *private, *pos;
- unsigned long flags;
size_t size = record->size + record->ecc_notice_size;

WARN_ON(!inode_is_locked(d_inode(root)));

- spin_lock_irqsave(&records_list_lock, flags);
+ mutex_lock(&records_list_lock);
list_for_each_entry(pos, &records_list, list) {
if (pos->record->type == record->type &&
pos->record->id == record->id &&
@@ -311,7 +308,7 @@ int pstore_mkfile(struct dentry *root, struct pstore_record *record)
break;
}
}
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&records_list_lock, flags);
+ mutex_unlock(&records_list_lock);
if (rc)
return rc;

@@ -343,9 +340,9 @@ int pstore_mkfile(struct dentry *root, struct pstore_record *record)

d_add(dentry, inode);

- spin_lock_irqsave(&records_list_lock, flags);
+ mutex_lock(&records_list_lock);
list_add(&private->list, &records_list);
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&records_list_lock, flags);
+ mutex_unlock(&records_list_lock);

return 0;

--
2.20.1