1. 17 7月, 2015 38 次提交
  2. 23 6月, 2015 1 次提交
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      module: add per-module param_lock · b51d23e4
      Dan Streetman 提交于
      Add a "param_lock" mutex to each module, and update params.c to use
      the correct built-in or module mutex while locking kernel params.
      Remove the kparam_block_sysfs_r/w() macros, replace them with direct
      calls to kernel_param_[un]lock(module).
      
      The kernel param code currently uses a single mutex to protect
      modification of any and all kernel params.  While this generally works,
      there is one specific problem with it; a module callback function
      cannot safely load another module, i.e. with request_module() or even
      with indirect calls such as crypto_has_alg().  If the module to be
      loaded has any of its params configured (e.g. with a /etc/modprobe.d/*
      config file), then the attempt will result in a deadlock between the
      first module param callback waiting for modprobe, and modprobe trying to
      lock the single kernel param mutex to set the new module's param.
      
      This fixes that by using per-module mutexes, so that each individual module
      is protected against concurrent changes in its own kernel params, but is
      not blocked by changes to other module params.  All built-in modules
      continue to use the built-in mutex, since they will always be loaded at
      runtime and references (e.g. request_module(), crypto_has_alg()) to them
      will never cause load-time param changing.
      
      This also simplifies the interface used by modules to block sysfs access
      to their params; while there are currently functions to block and unblock
      sysfs param access which are split up by read and write and expect a single
      kernel param to be passed, their actual operation is identical and applies
      to all params, not just the one passed to them; they simply lock and unlock
      the global param mutex.  They are replaced with direct calls to
      kernel_param_[un]lock(THIS_MODULE), which locks THIS_MODULE's param_lock, or
      if the module is built-in, it locks the built-in mutex.
      Suggested-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      Signed-off-by: NDan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
      Signed-off-by: NRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
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  3. 22 6月, 2015 1 次提交
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      mac80211: fix locking in update_vlan_tailroom_need_count() · 51f458d9
      Johannes Berg 提交于
      Unfortunately, Michal's change to fix AP_VLAN crypto tailroom
      caused a locking issue that was reported by lockdep, but only
      in a few cases - the issue was a classic ABBA deadlock caused
      by taking the mtx after the key_mtx, where normally they're
      taken the other way around.
      
      As the key mutex protects the field in question (I'm adding a
      few annotations to make that clear) only the iteration needs
      to be protected, but we can also iterate the interface list
      with just RCU protection while holding the key mutex.
      
      Fixes: f9dca80b ("mac80211: fix AP_VLAN crypto tailroom calculation")
      Signed-off-by: NJohannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
      Signed-off-by: NDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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