From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [patch] sgi-xp: nested calls to spin_lock_irqsave()
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:48:05 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111215064805.GA2776@elgon.mountain> (raw)
The code here has a nested spin_lock_irqsave(). It's not needed since
IRQs are already disabled and it causes a problem because it means that
IRQs won't be enabled again at the end. The second call to
spin_lock_irqsave() will overwrite the value of irq_flags and we can't
restore the proper settings.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
---
This is a static checker fix. It's possible that no one hits this bug
in real life if the function is always called with IRQs disabled.
diff --git a/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c b/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c
index 17bbacb..87b251a 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_uv.c
@@ -452,9 +452,9 @@ xpc_handle_activate_mq_msg_uv(struct xpc_partition *part,
if (msg->activate_gru_mq_desc_gpa !=
part_uv->activate_gru_mq_desc_gpa) {
- spin_lock_irqsave(&part_uv->flags_lock, irq_flags);
+ spin_lock(&part_uv->flags_lock);
part_uv->flags &= ~XPC_P_CACHED_ACTIVATE_GRU_MQ_DESC_UV;
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&part_uv->flags_lock, irq_flags);
+ spin_unlock(&part_uv->flags_lock);
part_uv->activate_gru_mq_desc_gpa =
msg->activate_gru_mq_desc_gpa;
}
next reply other threads:[~2011-12-15 6:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-15 6:48 Dan Carpenter [this message]
2011-12-16 11:55 ` [patch] sgi-xp: nested calls to spin_lock_irqsave() Robin Holt
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2012-06-27 13:51 Robin Holt
2012-06-28 22:03 ` Andrew Morton
2012-06-29 6:44 ` Dan Carpenter
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