Commit a3eb7fbb authored by Alexey Khoroshilov's avatar Alexey Khoroshilov Committed by Linus Torvalds

drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c: fix deadlock in compat_ioctl(I2OGETIOPS)

i2o_cfg_compat_ioctl(I2OGETIOPS) locks i2o_cfg_mutex and then calls
i2o_cfg_ioctl(I2OGETIOPS) that locks i2o_cfg_mutex as well.  A deadlock
is guaranteed.

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
Signed-off-by: default avatarAlexey Khoroshilov <khoroshilov@ispras.ru>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 3cf8ca1c
......@@ -754,19 +754,19 @@ static long i2o_cfg_compat_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd,
unsigned long arg)
{
int ret;
mutex_lock(&i2o_cfg_mutex);
switch (cmd) {
case I2OGETIOPS:
ret = i2o_cfg_ioctl(file, cmd, arg);
break;
case I2OPASSTHRU32:
mutex_lock(&i2o_cfg_mutex);
ret = i2o_cfg_passthru32(file, cmd, arg);
mutex_unlock(&i2o_cfg_mutex);
break;
default:
ret = -ENOIOCTLCMD;
break;
}
mutex_unlock(&i2o_cfg_mutex);
return ret;
}
......
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