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IPMI: fix hotmod remove lock
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The removal of proc entries was done holding a lock, which is no longer
allowed.  There is no need for the lock, only a mutex is required, so switch
over to a mutex.

Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <cminyard@mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Corey Minyard authored and Linus Torvalds committed Oct 18, 2007
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16 changes: 7 additions & 9 deletions drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c
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Expand Up @@ -221,10 +221,8 @@ struct ipmi_smi
void *send_info;

#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
/* A list of proc entries for this interface. This does not
need a lock, only one thread creates it and only one thread
destroys it. */
spinlock_t proc_entry_lock;
/* A list of proc entries for this interface. */
struct mutex proc_entry_lock;
struct ipmi_proc_entry *proc_entries;
#endif

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1891,11 +1889,11 @@ int ipmi_smi_add_proc_entry(ipmi_smi_t smi, char *name,
file->write_proc = write_proc;
file->owner = owner;

spin_lock(&smi->proc_entry_lock);
mutex_lock(&smi->proc_entry_lock);
/* Stick it on the list. */
entry->next = smi->proc_entries;
smi->proc_entries = entry;
spin_unlock(&smi->proc_entry_lock);
mutex_unlock(&smi->proc_entry_lock);
}
#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */

Expand Down Expand Up @@ -1939,7 +1937,7 @@ static void remove_proc_entries(ipmi_smi_t smi)
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
struct ipmi_proc_entry *entry;

spin_lock(&smi->proc_entry_lock);
mutex_lock(&smi->proc_entry_lock);
while (smi->proc_entries) {
entry = smi->proc_entries;
smi->proc_entries = entry->next;
Expand All @@ -1948,7 +1946,7 @@ static void remove_proc_entries(ipmi_smi_t smi)
kfree(entry->name);
kfree(entry);
}
spin_unlock(&smi->proc_entry_lock);
mutex_unlock(&smi->proc_entry_lock);
remove_proc_entry(smi->proc_dir_name, proc_ipmi_root);
#endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */
}
Expand Down Expand Up @@ -2679,7 +2677,7 @@ int ipmi_register_smi(struct ipmi_smi_handlers *handlers,
}
intf->curr_seq = 0;
#ifdef CONFIG_PROC_FS
spin_lock_init(&intf->proc_entry_lock);
mutex_init(&intf->proc_entry_lock);
#endif
spin_lock_init(&intf->waiting_msgs_lock);
INIT_LIST_HEAD(&intf->waiting_msgs);
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