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From: Harald Freudenberger <freude@linux.ibm.com>
To: dengler@linux.ibm.com
Cc: freude@linux.ibm.com, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
	Heiko Carstens <hca@linux.ibm.com>,
	Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com>,
	Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>,
	fcallies@linux.ibm.com
Subject: [PATCH v4 0/1] Use mutex_lock_killable() in ap_bus_force_rescan()
Date: Thu,  9 Jul 2026 09:24:59 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260709072500.55706-1-freude@linux.ibm.com> (raw)

A deep dive into the AP bus code and zcrypt device driver about the
usage of mutex locking showed that there is one questionable call in
ap_bus.c in function ap_bus_force_rescan(). This function may be
called in kernel and process context. In both contexts only one info
is important: was there a AP bus scan running and did it result in
some updates on the AP devices. So only true/false is returned but no
info like -EINTR. But still the mutex lock call should be
interruptible to be able to kill a user space program blocked forever
on this. So this patch replaces mutex_lock_interruptible() with
mutex_lock_killable() to  be able to handle SIGKILL especially in user
space process context.

v1 - initial version
v2 - with v1 came up some discussion from Holger and Heiko. Heiko especially
     wanted me to rephrase the header of the patch.
     However v2 went out with a rewrite of the code as discussed and suggested
     by Holger but Heikos complain were not addressed.
v3 - now and finally I rephrased the patch header. Let's see what feedback
     I'll get for this now.
v4 - Rephrased the subject, Reviewed-by updated

Harald Freudenberger (1):
  s390/ap: Use mutex_lock_killable() in ap_bus_force_rescan()

 drivers/s390/crypto/ap_bus.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

-- 
2.43.0


             reply	other threads:[~2026-07-09  7:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-07-09  7:24 Harald Freudenberger [this message]
2026-07-09  7:25 ` [PATCH v4 1/1] s390/ap: Use mutex_lock_killable() in ap_bus_force_rescan() Harald Freudenberger

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