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author | Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> | 2014-01-03 08:10:49 -0300 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2014-02-20 11:08:01 -0800 |
commit | 782b0c125b81ebf692a58d4be712e34d7241271d (patch) | |
tree | e3328a500b12abc18bd200ff9b740072276ae37d /lib | |
parent | 0f0b9cd9a9bdb15d60b8e628f34f8641007d0b97 (diff) |
Revert "[media] videobuf_vm_{open,close} race fixes"
commit cca36e2eecec2b8fc869a50ffd3bd0adeed92b8b upstream.
This reverts commit a242f426108c284049a69710f871cc9f11b13e61.
That commit actually caused deadlocks, rather then fixing them.
If ext_lock is set to NULL (otherwise videobuf_queue_lock doesn't do
anything), then you get this deadlock:
The driver's mmap function calls videobuf_mmap_mapper which calls
videobuf_queue_lock on q. videobuf_mmap_mapper calls __videobuf_mmap_mapper,
__videobuf_mmap_mapper calls videobuf_vm_open and videobuf_vm_open
calls videobuf_queue_lock on q (introduced by above patch): deadlocked.
This affects drivers using dma-contig and dma-vmalloc. Only dma-sg is
not affected since it doesn't call videobuf_vm_open from __videobuf_mmap_mapper.
Most drivers these days have a non-NULL ext_lock. Those that still use
NULL there are all fairly obscure drivers, which is why this hasn't been
seen earlier.
Since everything worked perfectly fine for many years I prefer to just
revert this patch rather than trying to fix it. videobuf is quite fragile
and I rather not touch it too much. Work is (slowly) progressing to move
everything over to vb2 or at the very least use non-NULL ext_lock in
videobuf.
Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Reported-by: Pete Eberlein <pete@sensoray.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <m.chehab@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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