From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Mike McLagan <mike.mclagan@linux.org>,
Linux Netdev List <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH][DLCI]: Fix tiny race between module unload and sock_ioctl.
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:00:49 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <47E3DBB1.4090706@openvz.org> (raw)
This is a narrow pedantry :) but the dlci_ioctl_hook check and call
should not be parted with the mutex lock.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
---
diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index b6d35cd..9d3fbfb 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -909,11 +909,10 @@ static long sock_ioctl(struct file *file, unsigned cmd, unsigned long arg)
if (!dlci_ioctl_hook)
request_module("dlci");
- if (dlci_ioctl_hook) {
- mutex_lock(&dlci_ioctl_mutex);
+ mutex_lock(&dlci_ioctl_mutex);
+ if (dlci_ioctl_hook)
err = dlci_ioctl_hook(cmd, argp);
- mutex_unlock(&dlci_ioctl_mutex);
- }
+ mutex_unlock(&dlci_ioctl_mutex);
break;
default:
err = sock->ops->ioctl(sock, cmd, arg);
next reply other threads:[~2008-03-21 16:01 UTC|newest]
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2008-03-21 16:00 Pavel Emelyanov [this message]
2008-03-21 22:59 ` [PATCH][DLCI]: Fix tiny race between module unload and sock_ioctl David Miller
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