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authorTyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>2012-06-11 10:21:34 -0700
committerTyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>2012-07-03 16:34:10 -0700
commit60d65f1f07a7d81d3eb3b91fc13fca80f2fdbb12 (patch)
treef1551f13ab37a33d1ce9c4e1377823cea7256556 /fs
parent9fe79d7600497ed8a95c3981cbe5b73ab98222f0 (diff)
eCryptfs: Fix lockdep warning in miscdev operations
Don't grab the daemon mutex while holding the message context mutex. Addresses this lockdep warning: ecryptfsd/2141 is trying to acquire lock: (&ecryptfs_msg_ctx_arr[i].mux){+.+.+.}, at: [<ffffffffa029c213>] ecryptfs_miscdev_read+0x143/0x470 [ecryptfs] but task is already holding lock: (&(*daemon)->mux){+.+...}, at: [<ffffffffa029c2ec>] ecryptfs_miscdev_read+0x21c/0x470 [ecryptfs] which lock already depends on the new lock. the existing dependency chain (in reverse order) is: -> #1 (&(*daemon)->mux){+.+...}: [<ffffffff810a3b8d>] lock_acquire+0x9d/0x220 [<ffffffff8151c6da>] __mutex_lock_common+0x5a/0x4b0 [<ffffffff8151cc64>] mutex_lock_nested+0x44/0x50 [<ffffffffa029c5d7>] ecryptfs_send_miscdev+0x97/0x120 [ecryptfs] [<ffffffffa029b744>] ecryptfs_send_message+0x134/0x1e0 [ecryptfs] [<ffffffffa029a24e>] ecryptfs_generate_key_packet_set+0x2fe/0xa80 [ecryptfs] [<ffffffffa02960f8>] ecryptfs_write_metadata+0x108/0x250 [ecryptfs] [<ffffffffa0290f80>] ecryptfs_create+0x130/0x250 [ecryptfs] [<ffffffff811963a4>] vfs_create+0xb4/0x120 [<ffffffff81197865>] do_last+0x8c5/0xa10 [<ffffffff811998f9>] path_openat+0xd9/0x460 [<ffffffff81199da2>] do_filp_open+0x42/0xa0 [<ffffffff81187998>] do_sys_open+0xf8/0x1d0 [<ffffffff81187a91>] sys_open+0x21/0x30 [<ffffffff81527d69>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b -> #0 (&ecryptfs_msg_ctx_arr[i].mux){+.+.+.}: [<ffffffff810a3418>] __lock_acquire+0x1bf8/0x1c50 [<ffffffff810a3b8d>] lock_acquire+0x9d/0x220 [<ffffffff8151c6da>] __mutex_lock_common+0x5a/0x4b0 [<ffffffff8151cc64>] mutex_lock_nested+0x44/0x50 [<ffffffffa029c213>] ecryptfs_miscdev_read+0x143/0x470 [ecryptfs] [<ffffffff811887d3>] vfs_read+0xb3/0x180 [<ffffffff811888ed>] sys_read+0x4d/0x90 [<ffffffff81527d69>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks <tyhicks@canonical.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c25
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c b/fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c
index 3a06f4043df..3c632ec412e 100644
--- a/fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c
+++ b/fs/ecryptfs/miscdev.c
@@ -191,31 +191,32 @@ int ecryptfs_send_miscdev(char *data, size_t data_size,
struct ecryptfs_msg_ctx *msg_ctx, u8 msg_type,
u16 msg_flags, struct ecryptfs_daemon *daemon)
{
- int rc = 0;
+ struct ecryptfs_message *msg;
- mutex_lock(&msg_ctx->mux);
- msg_ctx->msg = kmalloc((sizeof(*msg_ctx->msg) + data_size),
- GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!msg_ctx->msg) {
- rc = -ENOMEM;
+ msg = kmalloc((sizeof(*msg) + data_size), GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (!msg) {
printk(KERN_ERR "%s: Out of memory whilst attempting "
"to kmalloc(%zd, GFP_KERNEL)\n", __func__,
- (sizeof(*msg_ctx->msg) + data_size));
- goto out_unlock;
+ (sizeof(*msg) + data_size));
+ return -ENOMEM;
}
+
+ mutex_lock(&msg_ctx->mux);
+ msg_ctx->msg = msg;
msg_ctx->msg->index = msg_ctx->index;
msg_ctx->msg->data_len = data_size;
msg_ctx->type = msg_type;
memcpy(msg_ctx->msg->data, data, data_size);
msg_ctx->msg_size = (sizeof(*msg_ctx->msg) + data_size);
- mutex_lock(&daemon->mux);
list_add_tail(&msg_ctx->daemon_out_list, &daemon->msg_ctx_out_queue);
+ mutex_unlock(&msg_ctx->mux);
+
+ mutex_lock(&daemon->mux);
daemon->num_queued_msg_ctx++;
wake_up_interruptible(&daemon->wait);
mutex_unlock(&daemon->mux);
-out_unlock:
- mutex_unlock(&msg_ctx->mux);
- return rc;
+
+ return 0;
}
/*