Xiubo Li 3f400c2c2e uio: change to use the mutex lock instead of the spin lock
commit 543af5861f upstream.

We are hitting a regression with the following commit:

commit a93e7b3315
Author: Hamish Martin <hamish.martin@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Date:   Mon May 14 13:32:23 2018 +1200

    uio: Prevent device destruction while fds are open

The problem is the addition of spin_lock_irqsave in uio_write. This
leads to hitting  uio_write -> copy_from_user -> _copy_from_user ->
might_fault and the logs filling up with sleeping warnings.

I also noticed some uio drivers allocate memory, sleep, grab mutexes
from callouts like open() and release and uio is now doing
spin_lock_irqsave while calling them.

Reported-by: Mike Christie <mchristi@redhat.com>
CC: Hamish Martin <hamish.martin@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Reviewed-by: Hamish Martin <hamish.martin@alliedtelesis.co.nz>
Signed-off-by: Xiubo Li <xiubli@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Tommi Rantala <tommi.t.rantala@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2019-02-15 08:09:14 +01:00
2019-02-12 19:46:14 +01:00

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