From: Corey Minyard <[email protected]>
The removal of proc entries was done holding a lock, which is
no longer allowed. There is no need for the lock, only a mutex
is required, so switch over to a mutex.
Not needed for the stable kernel.
Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <[email protected]>
Index: linux-2.6.21/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
===================================================================
--- linux-2.6.21.orig/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
+++ linux-2.6.21/drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
@@ -221,10 +221,8 @@ struct ipmi_smi
void *send_info;
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
- /* A list of proc entries for this interface. This does not
- need a lock, only one thread creates it and only one thread
- destroys it. */
- spinlock_t proc_entry_lock;
+ /* A list of proc entries for this interface. */
+ struct mutex proc_entry_lock;
struct ipmi_proc_entry *proc_entries;
#endif
@@ -1891,11 +1889,11 @@ int ipmi_smi_add_proc_entry(ipmi_smi_t s
file->write_proc = write_proc;
file->owner = owner;
- spin_lock(&smi->proc_entry_lock);
+ mutex_lock(&smi->proc_entry_lock);
/* Stick it on the list. */
entry->next = smi->proc_entries;
smi->proc_entries = entry;
- spin_unlock(&smi->proc_entry_lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&smi->proc_entry_lock);
}
#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */
@@ -1939,7 +1937,7 @@ static void remove_proc_entries(ipmi_smi
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
struct ipmi_proc_entry *entry;
- spin_lock(&smi->proc_entry_lock);
+ mutex_lock(&smi->proc_entry_lock);
while (smi->proc_entries) {
entry = smi->proc_entries;
smi->proc_entries = entry->next;
@@ -1948,7 +1946,7 @@ static void remove_proc_entries(ipmi_smi
kfree(entry->name);
kfree(entry);
}
- spin_unlock(&smi->proc_entry_lock);
+ mutex_unlock(&smi->proc_entry_lock);
remove_proc_entry(smi->proc_dir_name, proc_ipmi_root);
#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */
}
@@ -2690,7 +2688,7 @@ int ipmi_register_smi(struct ipmi_smi_ha
}
intf->curr_seq = 0;
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
- spin_lock_init(&intf->proc_entry_lock);
+ mutex_init(&intf->proc_entry_lock);
#endif
spin_lock_init(&intf->waiting_msgs_lock);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&intf->waiting_msgs);
-
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