Re: 2.4.33pre1 kernel/sysctl.c missing spin_unlock()

[Willy TARREAU <willy@w.ods.org>]

On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 04:26:47PM +0100, jürgen baumann wrote:
> possibly fixed yet, but maybe not:
> 
> in above patch there was a spinlock(&sysctl_lock) added in 
> function do_register_sysctl_table(), but no corresponding 
> spin_unlock() before return.
> 
> after starting the new kernel (unfortunately with further 
> patches), it hangs on trying to start the kswapd-thread.
> 
> after inserting the spin_unlock() all run fine.

Can you be more specific ? First, there's no function named
like this in 2.4.33-pre1. The most approaching change I can
find lies in kernel/sysctl.c:register_sysctl_table() and this
one uses valid locking :

struct ctl_table_header *register_sysctl_table(ctl_table * table, 
                                               int insert_at_head)
{
        struct ctl_table_header *tmp;
        tmp = kmalloc(sizeof(struct ctl_table_header), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!tmp)
                return NULL;
        tmp->ctl_table = table;
        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&tmp->ctl_entry);
        tmp->used = 0;
        tmp->unregistering = NULL;
===>    spin_lock(&sysctl_lock);
        if (insert_at_head)
                list_add(&tmp->ctl_entry, &root_table_header.ctl_entry);
        else
                list_add_tail(&tmp->ctl_entry, &root_table_header.ctl_entry);
===>    spin_unlock(&sysctl_lock);
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
        register_proc_table(table, proc_sys_root, tmp);
#endif
        return tmp;
}

So possibly you found one real bug, but please tell us where you
had to patch !

Thanks in advance,
Willy