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authorGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-11-27 21:58:09 -0800
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-11-27 21:58:09 -0800
commit44c3eea650001d85f6adc951b6cd6f2e6fe7a155 (patch)
treee8a30bec684aba03ae027e428ce6cbd721a6051a /fs
parent5d60418e54751c856f5aecc308620fde9572e481 (diff)
parent81440e73744446adbe5b5d1f19460203d275028f (diff)
Merge branch 'driver-core-linus' into driver-core-next
We need those sysfs fixes in this branch to make testing, and future patches apply properly. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'fs')
-rw-r--r--fs/sysfs/file.c22
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/fs/sysfs/file.c b/fs/sysfs/file.c
index 564abd201af..0f3f0a252a5 100644
--- a/fs/sysfs/file.c
+++ b/fs/sysfs/file.c
@@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ static int sysfs_open_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
struct sysfs_dirent *attr_sd = file->f_path.dentry->d_fsdata;
struct kobject *kobj = attr_sd->s_parent->s_dir.kobj;
struct sysfs_open_file *of;
- bool has_read, has_write;
+ bool has_read, has_write, has_mmap;
int error = -EACCES;
/* need attr_sd for attr and ops, its parent for kobj */
@@ -621,6 +621,7 @@ static int sysfs_open_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
has_read = battr->read || battr->mmap;
has_write = battr->write || battr->mmap;
+ has_mmap = battr->mmap;
} else {
const struct sysfs_ops *ops = sysfs_file_ops(attr_sd);
@@ -632,6 +633,7 @@ static int sysfs_open_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
has_read = ops->show;
has_write = ops->store;
+ has_mmap = false;
}
/* check perms and supported operations */
@@ -649,7 +651,23 @@ static int sysfs_open_file(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
if (!of)
goto err_out;
- mutex_init(&of->mutex);
+ /*
+ * The following is done to give a different lockdep key to
+ * @of->mutex for files which implement mmap. This is a rather
+ * crude way to avoid false positive lockdep warning around
+ * mm->mmap_sem - mmap nests @of->mutex under mm->mmap_sem and
+ * reading /sys/block/sda/trace/act_mask grabs sr_mutex, under
+ * which mm->mmap_sem nests, while holding @of->mutex. As each
+ * open file has a separate mutex, it's okay as long as those don't
+ * happen on the same file. At this point, we can't easily give
+ * each file a separate locking class. Let's differentiate on
+ * whether the file has mmap or not for now.
+ */
+ if (has_mmap)
+ mutex_init(&of->mutex);
+ else
+ mutex_init(&of->mutex);
+
of->sd = attr_sd;
of->file = file;