Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] cuse: use mutex as registration lock instead of spinlocks

[Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>]

Hello, David.

On Sat, Nov 17, 2012 at 12:45:47PM +0100, David Herrmann wrote:
> We need to check for name-collisions during cuse-device registration. To
> avoid race-conditions, this needs to be protected during the whole device
> registration. Therefore, replace the spinlocks by mutexes first so we can
> safely extend the locked regions to include more expensive or sleeping
> code paths.
> 
> Signed-off-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@googlemail.com>
> @@ -114,14 +113,18 @@ static int cuse_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>  	int rc;
>  
>  	/* look up and get the connection */
> -	spin_lock(&cuse_lock);
> +	rc = mutex_lock_interruptible(&cuse_lock);

Well, the above can't hurt but it doesn't help anything either given
the narrow scope of the lock.  Eh well, I guess it's okay either way.

Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>

Thanks.

-- 
tejun