[PATCH][Natty SRU]: fix yama_ptracer_del lockdep warning
Ming Lei
ming.lei at canonical.com
Wed Jun 29 11:17:04 UTC 2011
From 8c09cdfb22a34ca49afaae4494f792aa02cf1580 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ming Lei <ming.lei at canonical.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 19:06:25 +0800
Subject: [PATCH][Natty SRU]:fix yama_ptracer_del lockdep warning
yama_ptracer_del can be called in softirq context, also
can be run in common process context, so take spin_lock_bh
in yama_ptracer_del to fix it, othewise deadlock may be
produced.
buglink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/791019
Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei at canonical.com>
---
security/yama/yama_lsm.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
index 7c3591a..927e6ad 100644
--- a/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
+++ b/security/yama/yama_lsm.c
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ static void yama_ptracer_del(struct task_struct *tracer,
struct ptrace_relation *relation;
struct list_head *list, *safe;
- spin_lock(&ptracer_relations_lock);
+ spin_lock_bh(&ptracer_relations_lock);
list_for_each_safe(list, safe, &ptracer_relations) {
relation = list_entry(list, struct ptrace_relation, node);
if (relation->tracee == tracee ||
@@ -91,7 +91,7 @@ static void yama_ptracer_del(struct task_struct *tracer,
kfree(relation);
}
}
- spin_unlock(&ptracer_relations_lock);
+ spin_unlock_bh(&ptracer_relations_lock);
}
/**
--
1.7.4.1
--
Ming Lei
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