linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH char-misc-next] UIO: Fix concurrency issue

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Date:	Fri, 21 Jun 2013 14:44:32 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Vitalii Demianets <vitas@...factor.kiev.ua>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	"Hans J. Koch" <hjk@...sjkoch.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH char-misc-next] UIO: Fix concurrency issue

On Thu 2013-06-20 16:36:00, Vitalii Demianets wrote:
> In a SMP case there was a race condition issue between 
> uio_pdrv_genirq_irqcontrol() running on one CPU and irq handler on another 
> CPU. Fix it by spin_locking shared resources access inside irq handler.
> Also:
>   - Change disable_irq to disable_irq_nosync to avoid deadlock, because 
> disable_irq waits for the completion of the irq handler;
>   - Change atomic bit-manipulation routines to their non-atomic counterparts 
> as we already are guarding the code by spinlock.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Vitalii Demianets <vitas@...factor.kiev.ua>

Sounds good.

Reviewed-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>

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