[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "printk: Fix rq->lock vs logbuf_lock unlock lock inversion" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    printk: Fix rq->lock vs logbuf_lock unlock lock inversion

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From d1b3319f355c21f70978f678c26481b61c32c2f9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "Bu, Yitian" <ybu at qti.qualcomm.com>
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2013 12:53:37 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] printk: Fix rq->lock vs logbuf_lock unlock lock inversion

commit dbda92d16f8655044e082930e4e9d244b87fde77 upstream.

commit 07354eb1a74d1 ("locking printk: Annotate logbuf_lock as raw")
reintroduced a lock inversion problem which was fixed in commit
0b5e1c5255 ("printk: Release console_sem after logbuf_lock"). This
happened probably when fixing up patch rejects.

Restore the ordering and unlock logbuf_lock before releasing
console_sem.

Signed-off-by: ybu <ybu at qti.qualcomm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra at chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/E807E903FE6CBE4D95E420FBFCC273B827413C@nasanexd01h.na.qualcomm.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/printk.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 5758501..e959512 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -1330,9 +1330,9 @@ static int console_trylock_for_printk(unsigned int cpu)
 		}
 	}
 	logbuf_cpu = UINT_MAX;
+	raw_spin_unlock(&logbuf_lock);
 	if (wake)
 		up(&console_sem);
-	raw_spin_unlock(&logbuf_lock);
 	return retval;
 }

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