Sysctl locking?

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

Hi,

I tried tracing through sysctl code and it appears that there is no
generic locking for reads and writes to a sysctl node and thus a patch
like below is needed if proc_handler is a bit more complex than simply
storing an integer value.

Am I missing something?

Thanks.

--  
Dmitry

Input: mac mouse emulation - add locking

We need to add appropriate locking when toggling mac mouse emulation
on and off to ensure that input device and handler are in consistent
state.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
---

 drivers/macintosh/mac_hid.c |    8 ++++++++
 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)


diff --git a/drivers/macintosh/mac_hid.c b/drivers/macintosh/mac_hid.c
index 067f996..6a82388 100644
--- a/drivers/macintosh/mac_hid.c
+++ b/drivers/macintosh/mac_hid.c
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ static int mouse_button3_keycode = KEY_RIGHTALT;	/* right option key */
 
 static struct input_dev *mac_hid_emumouse_dev;
 
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(mac_hid_emumouse_mutex);
+
 static int mac_hid_create_emumouse(void)
 {
 	static struct lock_class_key mac_hid_emumouse_dev_event_class;
@@ -187,6 +189,10 @@ static int mac_hid_toggle_emumouse(ctl_table *table, int write,
 	int old_val = *valp;
 	int rc;
 
+	rc = mutex_lock_killable(&mac_hid_emumouse_mutex);
+	if (rc)
+		return rc;
+
 	rc = proc_dointvec(table, write, buffer, lenp, ppos);
 
 	if (rc == 0 && write && *valp != old_val) {
@@ -202,6 +208,8 @@ static int mac_hid_toggle_emumouse(ctl_table *table, int write,
 	if (rc)
 		*valp = old_val;
 
+	mutex_unlock(&mac_hid_emumouse_mutex);
+
 	return rc;
 }