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authorCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>2015-06-24 16:58:31 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-06-24 17:49:45 -0700
commit5f369f374ba4889fe3c17883402db5ee8d254216 (patch)
tree984086416ed58cc61811fd4f277511b8f720ed1a /mm
parente781a9ab4847a81224667f5faab0b2bc5f78908f (diff)
mm: kmemleak: do not acquire scan_mutex in kmemleak_do_cleanup()
The kmemleak_do_cleanup() work thread already waits for the kmemleak_scan thread to finish via kthread_stop(). Waiting in kthread_stop() while scan_mutex is held may lead to deadlock if kmemleak_scan_thread() also waits to acquire for scan_mutex. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/kmemleak.c2
1 files changed, 0 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/kmemleak.c b/mm/kmemleak.c
index ecde522ff616..8a57e34625fa 100644
--- a/mm/kmemleak.c
+++ b/mm/kmemleak.c
@@ -1762,7 +1762,6 @@ static void __kmemleak_do_cleanup(void)
*/
static void kmemleak_do_cleanup(struct work_struct *work)
{
- mutex_lock(&scan_mutex);
stop_scan_thread();
/*
@@ -1777,7 +1776,6 @@ static void kmemleak_do_cleanup(struct work_struct *work)
else
pr_info("Kmemleak disabled without freeing internal data. "
"Reclaim the memory with \"echo clear > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak\"\n");
- mutex_unlock(&scan_mutex);
}
static DECLARE_WORK(cleanup_work, kmemleak_do_cleanup);