Patch "tap: convert a mutex to a spinlock" has been added to the 4.12-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    tap: convert a mutex to a spinlock

to the 4.12-stable tree which can be found at:
    http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     tap-convert-a-mutex-to-a-spinlock.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


>From foo@baz Mon Jul 17 18:46:41 CEST 2017
From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2017 10:05:50 -0700
Subject: tap: convert a mutex to a spinlock

From: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>


[ Upstream commit ffa423fb3251f8737303ffc3b0659e86e501808e ]

We are not allowed to block on the RCU reader side, so can't
just hold the mutex as before. As a quick fix, convert it to
a spinlock.

Fixes: d9f1f61c0801 ("tap: Extending tap device create/destroy APIs")
Reported-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Sainath Grandhi <sainath.grandhi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/net/tap.c |   18 +++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/net/tap.c
+++ b/drivers/net/tap.c
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ struct major_info {
 	struct rcu_head rcu;
 	dev_t major;
 	struct idr minor_idr;
-	struct mutex minor_lock;
+	spinlock_t minor_lock;
 	const char *device_name;
 	struct list_head next;
 };
@@ -416,15 +416,15 @@ int tap_get_minor(dev_t major, struct ta
 		goto unlock;
 	}
 
-	mutex_lock(&tap_major->minor_lock);
-	retval = idr_alloc(&tap_major->minor_idr, tap, 1, TAP_NUM_DEVS, GFP_KERNEL);
+	spin_lock(&tap_major->minor_lock);
+	retval = idr_alloc(&tap_major->minor_idr, tap, 1, TAP_NUM_DEVS, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (retval >= 0) {
 		tap->minor = retval;
 	} else if (retval == -ENOSPC) {
 		netdev_err(tap->dev, "Too many tap devices\n");
 		retval = -EINVAL;
 	}
-	mutex_unlock(&tap_major->minor_lock);
+	spin_unlock(&tap_major->minor_lock);
 
 unlock:
 	rcu_read_unlock();
@@ -442,12 +442,12 @@ void tap_free_minor(dev_t major, struct
 		goto unlock;
 	}
 
-	mutex_lock(&tap_major->minor_lock);
+	spin_lock(&tap_major->minor_lock);
 	if (tap->minor) {
 		idr_remove(&tap_major->minor_idr, tap->minor);
 		tap->minor = 0;
 	}
-	mutex_unlock(&tap_major->minor_lock);
+	spin_unlock(&tap_major->minor_lock);
 
 unlock:
 	rcu_read_unlock();
@@ -467,13 +467,13 @@ static struct tap_dev *dev_get_by_tap_fi
 		goto unlock;
 	}
 
-	mutex_lock(&tap_major->minor_lock);
+	spin_lock(&tap_major->minor_lock);
 	tap = idr_find(&tap_major->minor_idr, minor);
 	if (tap) {
 		dev = tap->dev;
 		dev_hold(dev);
 	}
-	mutex_unlock(&tap_major->minor_lock);
+	spin_unlock(&tap_major->minor_lock);
 
 unlock:
 	rcu_read_unlock();
@@ -1227,7 +1227,7 @@ static int tap_list_add(dev_t major, con
 	tap_major->major = MAJOR(major);
 
 	idr_init(&tap_major->minor_idr);
-	mutex_init(&tap_major->minor_lock);
+	spin_lock_init(&tap_major->minor_lock);
 
 	tap_major->device_name = device_name;
 


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com are

queue-4.12/tap-convert-a-mutex-to-a-spinlock.patch