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authorGeert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com>2008-11-06 21:53:37 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-11-07 00:41:19 +0100
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parentmemory hotplug: fix page_zone() calculation in test_pages_isolated() (diff)
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fbdev: fix fb_compat_ioctl() deadlocks
commit 3e680aae4e53ab54cdbb0c29257dae0cbb158e1c ("fb: convert lock/unlock_kernel() into local fb mutex") introduced several deadlocks in the fb_compat_ioctl() path, as mutex_lock() doesn't allow recursion, unlike lock_kernel(). This broke frame buffer applications on 64-bit systems with a 32-bit userland. commit 120a37470c2831fea49fdebaceb5a7039f700ce6 ("framebuffer compat_ioctl deadlock") fixed one of the deadlocks. This patch fixes the remaining deadlocks: - Revert commit 120a37470c2831fea49fdebaceb5a7039f700ce6, - Extract the core logic of fb_ioctl() into a new function do_fb_ioctl(), - Change all callsites of fb_ioctl() where info->lock is already held to call do_fb_ioctl() instead, - Add sparse annotations to all routines that take info->lock. Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@sonycom.com> Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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