Re: [PATCH 1/2] xen: privcmd: Switch from mutex to spinlock for irqfds

[Juergen Gross]

On 18.06.24 11:42, Viresh Kumar wrote:
> irqfd_wakeup() gets EPOLLHUP, when it is called by
> eventfd_release() by way of wake_up_poll(&ctx->wqh, EPOLLHUP), which
> gets called under spin_lock_irqsave(). We can't use a mutex here as it
> will lead to a deadlock.
>
> Fix it by switching over to a spin lock.
>
> Reported-by: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   drivers/xen/privcmd.c | 26 +++++++++++++++-----------
>   1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/privcmd.c b/drivers/xen/privcmd.c
> index 67dfa4778864..5ceb6c56cf3e 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/privcmd.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/privcmd.c
> @@ -13,7 +13,6 @@
>   #include <linux/file.h>
>   #include <linux/kernel.h>
>   #include <linux/module.h>
> -#include <linux/mutex.h>

I don't think you can drop that. There is still the ioreq_lock mutex.

I can fix that up while committing, with that:

Reviewed-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>


Juergen

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