linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH][UHCI-DEBUG] Don't kmalloc with BKL held

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Date:	Fri, 2 Oct 2009 09:20:21 +0000
From:	Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@...og.eu>
To:	Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sdietrich@...ell.com>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-rt-users <linux-rt-users@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][UHCI-DEBUG] Don't kmalloc with BKL held

Hi Sven-Thorsten,

On Fri, Oct 02, 2009 at 11:12:24AM +0200, Sven-Thorsten Dietrich wrote:
> Subject: Don't kmalloc with BKL held.
> From: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sdietrich@...e.de>
> 
> I'm eyeballing this file for complete removal of lock_kernel but 
> at first glance, we definitely don't need BKL to kmalloc(). 
You need to move the unlock_kernel() above the out: label too.

Regards,
Frederik

> 
> Signed-off-by: Sven-Thorsten Dietrich <sdietrich@...e.de>
> 
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/uhci-debug.c b/drivers/usb/host/uhci-debug.c
> index e52b954..325d508 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/host/uhci-debug.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/host/uhci-debug.c
> @@ -497,7 +497,6 @@ static int uhci_debug_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>  	int ret = -ENOMEM;
>  	unsigned long flags;
>  
> -	lock_kernel();
>  	up = kmalloc(sizeof(*up), GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (!up)
>  		goto out;
> @@ -509,6 +508,8 @@ static int uhci_debug_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
>  	}
>  
>  	up->size = 0;
> +
> +	lock_kernel();
>  	spin_lock_irqsave(&uhci->lock, flags);
>  	if (uhci->is_initialized)
>  		up->size = uhci_sprint_schedule(uhci, up->data, MAX_OUTPUT);
> 
> 
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