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| author |   Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com> | 2009-03-31 15:25:18 -0700 |
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| committer |   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-04-01 08:59:29 -0700 |
| commit | 66c1ca019078220dc1bf968f2bb18421100ef147 (patch) | |
| tree | b01d28d74bab9d9e3f0f24841a80a272d6f6520a /drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c | |
| parent | cirrusfb: fix interlaced modes (diff) | |
| download | linux-dev-66c1ca019078220dc1bf968f2bb18421100ef147.tar.xz linux-dev-66c1ca019078220dc1bf968f2bb18421100ef147.zip | |
fbmem: fix fb_info->lock and mm->mmap_sem circular locking dependency
Fix a circular locking dependency in the frame buffer console driver
pushing down the mutex fb_info->lock.
Circular locking dependecies occur calling the blocking
fb_notifier_call_chain() with fb_info->lock held. Notifier callbacks can
try to acquire mm->mmap_sem, while fb_mmap() acquires the locks in the
reverse order mm->mmap_sem => fb_info->lock.
Tested-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <righi.andrea@gmail.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c index 157057c79ca3..dd37cbcaf8ce 100644 --- a/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c +++ b/drivers/video/backlight/backlight.c @@ -35,6 +35,8 @@ static int fb_notifier_callback(struct notifier_block *self, return 0; bd = container_of(self, struct backlight_device, fb_notif); + if (!lock_fb_info(evdata->info)) + return -ENODEV; mutex_lock(&bd->ops_lock); if (bd->ops) if (!bd->ops->check_fb || @@ -47,6 +49,7 @@ static int fb_notifier_callback(struct notifier_block *self, backlight_update_status(bd); } mutex_unlock(&bd->ops_lock); + unlock_fb_info(evdata->info); return 0; } |