-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Arjan van de Ven commit 81b2dbcad86732ffc02bad87aa25c4651199fc77 in mainline. vidiocgmbuf() does this: mutex_lock(&fh->cap.vb_lock); retval = videobuf_mmap_setup(&fh->cap, gbuffers, gbufsize, V4L2_MEMORY_MMAP); and videobuf_mmap_setup() then just does mutex_lock(&q->vb_lock); ret = __videobuf_mmap_setup(q, bcount, bsize, memory); mutex_unlock(&q->vb_lock); which is an obvious double-take deadlock. This patch fixes this by having vidiocgmbuf() just call the __videobuf_mmap_setup function instead. Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Reported-by: Koos Vriezen Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c | 2 +- drivers/media/video/videobuf-core.c | 3 ++- include/media/videobuf-core.h | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c @@ -2613,7 +2613,7 @@ static int vidiocgmbuf(struct file *file struct bttv_fh *fh = priv; mutex_lock(&fh->cap.vb_lock); - retval = videobuf_mmap_setup(&fh->cap, gbuffers, gbufsize, + retval = __videobuf_mmap_setup(&fh->cap, gbuffers, gbufsize, V4L2_MEMORY_MMAP); if (retval < 0) { mutex_unlock(&fh->cap.vb_lock); --- a/drivers/media/video/videobuf-core.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/videobuf-core.c @@ -335,7 +335,7 @@ int videobuf_mmap_free(struct videobuf_q } /* Locking: Caller holds q->vb_lock */ -static int __videobuf_mmap_setup(struct videobuf_queue *q, +int __videobuf_mmap_setup(struct videobuf_queue *q, unsigned int bcount, unsigned int bsize, enum v4l2_memory memory) { @@ -1093,6 +1093,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(videobuf_read_stream); EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(videobuf_read_one); EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(videobuf_poll_stream); +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__videobuf_mmap_setup); EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(videobuf_mmap_setup); EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(videobuf_mmap_free); EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(videobuf_mmap_mapper); --- a/include/media/videobuf-core.h +++ b/include/media/videobuf-core.h @@ -227,6 +227,9 @@ unsigned int videobuf_poll_stream(struct int videobuf_mmap_setup(struct videobuf_queue *q, unsigned int bcount, unsigned int bsize, enum v4l2_memory memory); +int __videobuf_mmap_setup(struct videobuf_queue *q, + unsigned int bcount, unsigned int bsize, + enum v4l2_memory memory); int videobuf_mmap_free(struct videobuf_queue *q); int videobuf_mmap_mapper(struct videobuf_queue *q, struct vm_area_struct *vma); -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/