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staging: zcache: avoid AB-BA deadlock condition
authorAndrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>
Mon, 20 Feb 2012 12:11:49 +0000 (13:11 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 24 Feb 2012 19:59:59 +0000 (11:59 -0800)
commit72a6382ff0b195034a7a72b3073d653d06bf882b
tree65f1f8fc6817dd0c0c0a626b437d46b1ee826671
parent97e36a9982095950a7b0b98c088f47447737f720
staging: zcache: avoid AB-BA deadlock condition

Commit d56f2e5 fixed a deadlock condition, being sure that the buddy
list spinlock is always taken before the page spinlock.

However in zbud_free_and_delist() locking order is the opposite
(page lock -> list lock).

Possible unsafe locking scenario (reported by lockdep):

        CPU0                    CPU1
        ----                    ----
   lock(&(&zbpg->lock)->rlock);
                                lock(zbud_budlists_spinlock);
                                lock(&(&zbpg->lock)->rlock);
   lock(zbud_budlists_spinlock);

Fix by grabbing the locks in opposite order in zbud_free_and_delist().

Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea@betterlinux.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/staging/zcache/zcache-main.c