linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/1] staging: android: ashmem: get_name,set_name not to hold ashmem

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Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2013 17:53:58 +0530
From:	"Shankar Brahadeeswaran" <shankoo77@...il.com>
To:	"Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
cc:	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	"Cruz Julian Bishop" <cruzjbishop@...il.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Hugh Dickins" <hughd@...gle.com>,
	"Konstantin Khlebnikov" <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>,
	"Shankar Brahadeeswaran" <shankoo77@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] staging: android: ashmem: get_name,set_name not to
 hold ashmem_mutex

Hi Greg,
This patch is to fix a dead lock scenario that is created in ashmem driver.
The inital patch for review was posted and I got some comments from Dan
Carpeneter.I have incorporated the changes and re-tested the
same. Submitting the final patch for your pursual.

Warm Regards,
Shankar

Shankar Brahadeeswaran (1):
  staging: android: ashmem: get_name,set_name not to hold      
    ashmem_mutex

 drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c |   44 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
 1 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-)

-- 
1.7.6


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