* [PATCH] vmw_balloon: release lock on error in vmballoon_reset()
@ 2019-02-11 18:45 Dan Carpenter
2019-02-11 19:12 ` Nadav Amit
0 siblings, 1 reply; 2+ messages in thread
From: Dan Carpenter @ 2019-02-11 18:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Julien Freche, Xavier Deguillard, Nadav Amit
Cc: VMware, Inc., Arnd Bergmann, Greg Kroah-Hartman, linux-kernel,
kernel-janitors
We added some locking to this function but forgot to drop the lock on
these two error paths. This bug would lead to an immediate deadlock.
Fixes: c7b3690fb152 ("vmw_balloon: stats rework")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
---
drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c b/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
index 6542a7711cac..ad807d5a3141 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
@@ -1330,7 +1330,7 @@ static void vmballoon_reset(struct vmballoon *b)
vmballoon_pop(b);
if (vmballoon_send_start(b, VMW_BALLOON_CAPABILITIES))
- return;
+ goto unlock;
if ((b->capabilities & VMW_BALLOON_BATCHED_CMDS) != 0) {
if (vmballoon_init_batching(b)) {
@@ -1341,7 +1341,7 @@ static void vmballoon_reset(struct vmballoon *b)
* The guest will retry in one second.
*/
vmballoon_send_start(b, 0);
- return;
+ goto unlock;
}
} else if ((b->capabilities & VMW_BALLOON_BASIC_CMDS) != 0) {
vmballoon_deinit_batching(b);
@@ -1357,6 +1357,7 @@ static void vmballoon_reset(struct vmballoon *b)
if (vmballoon_send_guest_id(b))
pr_err("failed to send guest ID to the host\n");
+unlock:
up_write(&b->conf_sem);
}
--
2.17.1
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* Re: [PATCH] vmw_balloon: release lock on error in vmballoon_reset()
2019-02-11 18:45 [PATCH] vmw_balloon: release lock on error in vmballoon_reset() Dan Carpenter
@ 2019-02-11 19:12 ` Nadav Amit
0 siblings, 0 replies; 2+ messages in thread
From: Nadav Amit @ 2019-02-11 19:12 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Dan Carpenter, Greg Kroah-Hartman
Cc: Julien Freche, Xavier Deguillard, Pv-drivers, Arnd Bergmann, LKML,
kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
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