The following commit has been merged in the linux branch:
commit 83db93f4de2d9ae441a491d1dc61c2204f0195de
Author: Neil Brown <neilb(a)suse.de>
Date: Tue Sep 15 16:05:51 2009 -0700
sysfs: Allow sysfs_notify_dirent to be called from interrupt context.
sysfs_notify_dirent is a simple atomic operation that can be used to
alert user-space that new data can be read from a sysfs attribute.
Unfortunately it cannot currently be called from non-process context
because of its use of spin_lock which is sometimes taken with
interrupts enabled.
So change all lockers of sysfs_open_dirent_lock to disable interrupts,
thus making sysfs_notify_dirent safe to be called from non-process
context (as drivers/md does in md_safemode_timeout).
sysfs_get_open_dirent is (documented as being) only called from
process context, so it uses spin_lock_irq. Other places
use spin_lock_irqsave.
The usage for sysfs_notify_dirent in md_safemode_timeout was
introduced in 2.6.28, so this patch is suitable for that and more
recent kernels.
Reported-by: Joel Andres Granados <jgranado(a)redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb(a)suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams(a)intel.com>
Cc: stable <stable(a)kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh(a)suse.de>
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index 561a9c0..f5ea468 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ static int sysfs_get_open_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent *sd,
struct sysfs_open_dirent *od, *new_od = NULL;
retry:
- spin_lock(&sysfs_open_dirent_lock);
+ spin_lock_irq(&sysfs_open_dirent_lock);
if (!sd->s_attr.open && new_od) {
sd->s_attr.open = new_od;
@@ -281,7 +281,7 @@ static int sysfs_get_open_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent *sd,
list_add_tail(&buffer->list, &od->buffers);
}
- spin_unlock(&sysfs_open_dirent_lock);
+ spin_unlock_irq(&sysfs_open_dirent_lock);
if (od) {
kfree(new_od);
@@ -315,8 +315,9 @@ static void sysfs_put_open_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent *sd,
struct sysfs_buffer *buffer)
{
struct sysfs_open_dirent *od = sd->s_attr.open;
+ unsigned long flags;
- spin_lock(&sysfs_open_dirent_lock);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&sysfs_open_dirent_lock, flags);
list_del(&buffer->list);
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&od->refcnt))
@@ -324,7 +325,7 @@ static void sysfs_put_open_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent *sd,
else
od = NULL;
- spin_unlock(&sysfs_open_dirent_lock);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sysfs_open_dirent_lock, flags);
kfree(od);
}
@@ -456,8 +457,9 @@ static unsigned int sysfs_poll(struct file *filp, poll_table *wait)
void sysfs_notify_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
{
struct sysfs_open_dirent *od;
+ unsigned long flags;
- spin_lock(&sysfs_open_dirent_lock);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&sysfs_open_dirent_lock, flags);
od = sd->s_attr.open;
if (od) {
@@ -465,7 +467,7 @@ void sysfs_notify_dirent(struct sysfs_dirent *sd)
wake_up_interruptible(&od->poll);
}
- spin_unlock(&sysfs_open_dirent_lock);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&sysfs_open_dirent_lock, flags);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(sysfs_notify_dirent);
--
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