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[Xen-changelog] [linux-2.6.18-xen] netfront accel: Over-eager locking meant kmalloc at GFP_KERNEL with irqs disabled



# HG changeset patch
# User Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxx>
# Date 1198169894 0
# Node ID 61c96456a3e10847b6281e9f9fe819ae513a1658
# Parent  06b826b4f71e74f016767aa2f26232239839bee3
netfront accel: Over-eager locking meant kmalloc at GFP_KERNEL with irqs 
disabled
Signed-off-by Kieran Mansley <kmansley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/xen/netfront/accel.c |   19 +++----------------
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff -r 06b826b4f71e -r 61c96456a3e1 drivers/xen/netfront/accel.c
--- a/drivers/xen/netfront/accel.c      Thu Dec 20 11:05:16 2007 +0000
+++ b/drivers/xen/netfront/accel.c      Thu Dec 20 16:58:14 2007 +0000
@@ -273,6 +273,7 @@ static int init_accelerator(const char *
 {
        struct netfront_accelerator *accelerator = 
                kmalloc(sizeof(struct netfront_accelerator), GFP_KERNEL);
+       unsigned long flags;
        int frontend_len;
 
        if (!accelerator) {
@@ -294,7 +295,9 @@ static int init_accelerator(const char *
 
        accelerator->hooks = hooks;
 
+       spin_lock_irqsave(&accelerators_lock, flags);
        list_add(&accelerator->link, &accelerators_list);
+       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&accelerators_lock, flags);
 
        *result = accelerator;
 
@@ -365,11 +368,8 @@ static int netfront_load_accelerator(str
 {
        struct netfront_accelerator *accelerator;
        int rc = 0;
-       unsigned long flags;
 
        DPRINTK(" %s\n", frontend);
-
-       spin_lock_irqsave(&accelerators_lock, flags);
 
        /* 
         * Look at list of loaded accelerators to see if the requested
@@ -377,8 +377,6 @@ static int netfront_load_accelerator(str
         */
        list_for_each_entry(accelerator, &accelerators_list, link) {
                if (match_accelerator(frontend, accelerator)) {
-                       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&accelerators_lock, flags);
-
                        accelerator_probe_new_vif(np, dev, accelerator);
                        return 0;
                }
@@ -386,11 +384,8 @@ static int netfront_load_accelerator(str
 
        /* Couldn't find it, so create a new one and load the module */
        if ((rc = init_accelerator(frontend, &accelerator, NULL)) < 0) {
-               spin_unlock_irqrestore(&accelerators_lock, flags);
                return rc;
        }
-
-       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&accelerators_lock, flags);
 
        /* Include this frontend device on the accelerator's list */
        add_accelerator_vif(accelerator, np);
@@ -450,7 +445,6 @@ int netfront_accelerator_loaded(int vers
                                struct netfront_accel_hooks *hooks)
 {
        struct netfront_accelerator *accelerator;
-       unsigned long flags;
 
        if (version != NETFRONT_ACCEL_VERSION) {
                if (version > NETFRONT_ACCEL_VERSION) {
@@ -469,18 +463,13 @@ int netfront_accelerator_loaded(int vers
 
        mutex_lock(&accelerator_mutex);
 
-       spin_lock_irqsave(&accelerators_lock, flags);
-
        /* 
         * Look through list of accelerators to see if it has already
         * been requested
         */
        list_for_each_entry(accelerator, &accelerators_list, link) {
                if (match_accelerator(frontend, accelerator)) {
-                       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&accelerators_lock, flags);
-
                        accelerator_probe_vifs(accelerator, hooks);
-
                        goto out;
                }
        }
@@ -493,8 +482,6 @@ int netfront_accelerator_loaded(int vers
                frontend);
 
        init_accelerator(frontend, &accelerator, hooks);
-
-       spin_unlock_irqrestore(&accelerators_lock, flags);
 
  out:
        mutex_unlock(&accelerator_mutex);

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