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authorJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>2015-02-02 11:29:29 -0500
committerJ. Bruce Fields <bfields@redhat.com>2015-02-02 11:29:29 -0500
commita584143b01ce69803116ae8d0a4db382acc728d7 (patch)
tree002733709647fa1e17683a9d21dbc23ae99e3d2d /drivers/misc/cxl/file.c
parent4c94e13e9caed09103419c087f436d79f9d2faba (diff)
parent8116bf4cb62d337c953cfa5369ef4cf83e73140c (diff)
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Merge branch 'locks-3.20' of git://git.samba.org/jlayton/linux into for-3.20
Christoph's block pnfs patches have some minor dependencies on these lock patches.
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/misc/cxl/file.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/misc/cxl/file.c14
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/misc/cxl/file.c b/drivers/misc/cxl/file.c
index e9f2f10..b15d811 100644
--- a/drivers/misc/cxl/file.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/cxl/file.c
@@ -140,18 +140,20 @@ static long afu_ioctl_start_work(struct cxl_context *ctx,
pr_devel("%s: pe: %i\n", __func__, ctx->pe);
- mutex_lock(&ctx->status_mutex);
- if (ctx->status != OPENED) {
- rc = -EIO;
- goto out;
- }
-
+ /* Do this outside the status_mutex to avoid a circular dependency with
+ * the locking in cxl_mmap_fault() */
if (copy_from_user(&work, uwork,
sizeof(struct cxl_ioctl_start_work))) {
rc = -EFAULT;
goto out;
}
+ mutex_lock(&ctx->status_mutex);
+ if (ctx->status != OPENED) {
+ rc = -EIO;
+ goto out;
+ }
+
/*
* if any of the reserved fields are set or any of the unused
* flags are set it's invalid
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