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[PATCH] oprofile: fix potential deadlock on oprofilefs_lock
authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Wed, 28 Mar 2007 16:12:34 +0000 (18:12 +0200)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 28 Mar 2007 20:58:02 +0000 (13:58 -0700)
commit783c8ee17e01cd6d9b5cb2e0d9b7511a296dbabc
tree1d68ae9c2e07c87f7cbc2f4b5c10d98a6c60a874tree | snapshot
parentdcd7f226516fa4b41603253bc25e028e0b95d300commit | diff
[PATCH] oprofile: fix potential deadlock on oprofilefs_lock

nmi_cpu_setup() is called from hardirq context and acquires oprofilefs_lock.
alloc_event_buffer() and oprofilefs_ulong_from_user() acquire this lock
without disabling irqs, which could deadlock.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/oprofile/event_buffer.c diff | blob | history
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