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>

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);