lkdtm: avoid calling lkdtm_do_action() with spinlock held

lkdtm_do_action() may call sleeping functions like kmalloc(), so do not
call it with spin lock held.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <[email protected]>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <[email protected]>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Dave Young <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c b/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
index 150cd7061b808019d4a775ab29fc287558d7508e..28adefe70f96274c93198ee50acc9ee65adec1ae 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
@@ -354,6 +354,7 @@ static void lkdtm_do_action(enum ctype which)
 static void lkdtm_handler(void)
 {
        unsigned long flags;
+       bool do_it = false;
 
        spin_lock_irqsave(&count_lock, flags);
        count--;
@@ -361,10 +362,13 @@ static void lkdtm_handler(void)
                        cp_name_to_str(cpoint), cp_type_to_str(cptype), count);
 
        if (count == 0) {
-               lkdtm_do_action(cptype);
+               do_it = true;
                count = cpoint_count;
        }
        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&count_lock, flags);
+
+       if (do_it)
+               lkdtm_do_action(cptype);
 }
 
 static int lkdtm_register_cpoint(enum cname which)