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| author | Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> | 2011-12-08 14:34:13 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-12-09 07:50:28 -0800 |
| commit | 09dc3cf93f7d16fdd37a0ad8486faebb5e2769ec (patch) | |
| tree | 4db1b0103db218d0d0aa26a26232c3674dd18622 /kernel | |
| parent | c193c82f054195aa352ccbef91afc28446e5a30e (diff) | |
printk: avoid double lock acquire
Commit 4f2a8d3cf5e ("printk: Fix console_sem vs logbuf_lock unlock race")
introduced another silly bug where we would want to acquire an already
held lock. Avoid this.
Reported-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/printk.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c index 1455a0d4eed..7982a0a841e 100644 --- a/kernel/printk.c +++ b/kernel/printk.c @@ -1293,10 +1293,11 @@ again: raw_spin_lock(&logbuf_lock); if (con_start != log_end) retry = 1; + raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&logbuf_lock, flags); + if (retry && console_trylock()) goto again; - raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&logbuf_lock, flags); if (wake_klogd) wake_up_klogd(); } |