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author | Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com> | 2014-12-08 16:50:36 +0800 |
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committer | Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> | 2014-12-22 23:02:38 +1100 |
commit | 1dacb395d68a14825ee48c0843335e3181aea675 (patch) | |
tree | 55b22c3c63081c224b168bd09e2dd19eb52d6fa8 /drivers/char | |
parent | 9372b35e11149c5314f56f939775e67d83057604 (diff) |
hwrng: move some code out mutex_lock for avoiding underlying deadlock
In next patch, we use reference counting for each struct hwrng,
changing reference count also needs to take mutex_lock. Before
releasing the lock, if we try to stop a kthread that waits to
take the lock to reduce the referencing count, deadlock will
occur.
Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/hw_random/core.c | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c index 2dd3144d69b1..b4c0e873d362 100644 --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c @@ -470,12 +470,12 @@ void hwrng_unregister(struct hwrng *rng) } } if (list_empty(&rng_list)) { + mutex_unlock(&rng_mutex); unregister_miscdev(); if (hwrng_fill) kthread_stop(hwrng_fill); - } - - mutex_unlock(&rng_mutex); + } else + mutex_unlock(&rng_mutex); } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hwrng_unregister); |