From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: James Hogan <james@albanarts.com>
Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-doc@vger.kernel.org,
Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@suse.de>,
Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>,
markgross <markgross@thegnar.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] pm_trace: Lock pm device list mutex.
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 00:43:47 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201010100043.47397.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201010092336.11548.james@albanarts.com>
On Sunday, October 10, 2010, James Hogan wrote:
> Lock the pm device list mutex using device_pm_lock() and
> device_pm_unlock() around the list iteration in show_dev_hash().
>
> show_dev_hash() was reverse iterating dpm_list without first locking the
> mutex that the functions in drivers/base/power/main.c lock. I assume
> this was unintentional since there is no comment suggesting why the lock
> might not be necessary.
>
> Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james@albanarts.com>
Looks good.
> ---
> drivers/base/power/trace.c | 5 ++++-
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/base/power/trace.c b/drivers/base/power/trace.c
> index 0a1a2c4..17e24e3 100644
> --- a/drivers/base/power/trace.c
> +++ b/drivers/base/power/trace.c
> @@ -188,8 +188,10 @@ static int show_file_hash(unsigned int value)
> static int show_dev_hash(unsigned int value)
> {
> int match = 0;
> - struct list_head *entry = dpm_list.prev;
> + struct list_head *entry;
>
> + device_pm_lock();
> + entry = dpm_list.prev;
> while (entry != &dpm_list) {
> struct device * dev = to_device(entry);
> unsigned int hash = hash_string(DEVSEED, dev_name(dev), DEVHASH);
> @@ -199,6 +201,7 @@ static int show_dev_hash(unsigned int value)
> }
> entry = entry->prev;
> }
> + device_pm_unlock();
> return match;
> }
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-09 22:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-09 22:34 [PATCH 0/2] pm_trace: Add locking and add sysfs attr for rechecking dev hash James Hogan
2010-10-09 22:36 ` [PATCH 1/2] pm_trace: Lock pm device list mutex James Hogan
2010-10-09 22:43 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2010-10-09 22:37 ` [PATCH 2/2] pm_trace: Add sysfs attr for rechecking dev hash James Hogan
2010-10-09 22:49 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-10-09 23:13 ` James Hogan
2010-10-09 23:30 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-10-10 18:04 ` Pavel Machek
2010-10-10 19:47 ` James Hogan
2010-10-10 20:47 ` Pavel Machek
2010-10-10 21:19 ` James Hogan
2010-10-10 22:12 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
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