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From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
To: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: iceberg <strakh@ispras.ru>, Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
	Linux Kernlel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [BUG] ati_remote2.c: possible mutex_lock without mutex_unlock
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 00:14:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091014071428.GA5318@core.coreip.homeip.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.2.00.0910140906280.8582@wotan.suse.de>

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 09:11:06AM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Oct 2009, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> 
> > Umm, I don't like assuming that EAGAIN can only mean that 
> > mutex_lock_interruptible() failed, seq_file core may theoretically 
> > return -EAGAIN too. In fact, looking through seq_file.c traverse() does 
> > return -EAGAIN in certain cases...
> 
> Damn, you are right -- I explicitly checked for this, but have completely 
> overlooked the "Eoveflow:" branch in traverse(), which returns EAGAIN. So 
> my previous patch is of course incorrect.
> 
> > Input: fix locking issue in /proc/bus/input/ handlers
> > 
> > From: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
> > 
> > input_devices_seq_start() uses mutex_lock_interruptible() to acquire
> > the input_mutex, but doesn't properly handle the situation when the
> > call fails (for example due to interrupt). Instead of returning NULL
> > (which indicates that there is no more data) we should return
> > ERR_PTR()-encoded error.
> > 
> > We also need explicit flag indicating whether input_mutex was acquired
> > since input_devices_seq_stop() is called whether input_devices_seq_start()
> > was successful or not.
> > 
> > The same applies to input_handlers_seq_start().
> > 
> > Reported-by: iceberg <strakh@ispras.ru>
> > Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
> 
> Yup, looks OK to me.
> 

Putting you as "Reviewed-by.." then, OK?

-- 
Dmitry

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-14  7:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-13 17:52 [BUG] ati_remote2.c: possible mutex_lock without mutex_unlock iceberg
2009-10-13 15:43 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-10-14  6:29   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-10-14  7:11     ` Jiri Kosina
2009-10-14  7:14       ` Dmitry Torokhov [this message]
2009-10-14  7:16         ` Jiri Kosina

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