Re: [PATCH]: Fix deadlock in USBIP driver (staging), linux-2.6.34-rc5

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 08:12:05PM +0200, Eric Lescouet wrote:
> Greg KH wrote:
> [...]
> >Ok, but does the lock_kernel() call you just made actually prevent this
> >from happening?  Isn't there some other lock you can use instead?
> >
> 
> Right. lock_kernel() is not needed (was copy/paste).
> The deadlock is avoided by not calling wait_for_completion()
> when the code is executed by the "eh" thread itself.
> 
> >Also, to have patches that we can apply, we need a "Signed-off-by:"
> >line.  See the file, Documentation/SubmittingPatches for what this
> >means.
> 
> Understood.
> 
> >Your email client wrapped the patch and made it unappliable :(
> >
> >thanks,
> >
> >greg k-h
> 
> Sorry about that. Please find below an hopefully better one.
> Thanks,
> 	Eric.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eric Lescouet <eric@lescouet.org>
> -------------
> 
> diff -Nur linux-2.6.34-rc5/drivers/staging/usbip/usbip_event.c
> linux-2.6.34-rc5.new/drivers/staging/usbip/usbip_event.c
> --- linux-2.6.34-rc5/drivers/staging/usbip/usbip_event.c
> 2010-04-20 01:29:56.000000000 +0200
> +++ linux-2.6.34-rc5.new/drivers/staging/usbip/usbip_event.c
> 2010-04-22 19:19:52.997889126 +0200
> @@ -117,6 +117,9 @@
> {
> struct usbip_task *eh = &ud->eh;
> +       if (eh->thread == current)
> +               return; /* do not wait for myself */
> +
> wait_for_completion(&eh->thread_done);
> usbip_dbg_eh("usbip_eh has finished\n");

Odd, the patch has all leading tabs and spaces stripped out of it, is
linewrapped, and the tabs are converted to spaces :(

Care to try again, third time's a charm...

thanks,

greg k-h