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authorJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2007-11-28 19:22:03 -0500
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-11-29 12:24:54 -0500
commit8853c202b4a91713dbfb4d9b6e1c87cc2aa12392 (patch)
treea6c9621d3067eebc17c2ce53fa45e7513ee832a6 /drivers/rtc
parent08b633070ad5fa17a837428a601c32cf3db6aafd (diff)
RTC: convert mutex to bitfield
RTC code is using mutex to assure exclusive access to /dev/rtc. This is however wrong usage, as it leaves the mutex locked when returning into userspace, which is unacceptable. Convert rtc->char_lock into bit operation. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/rtc')
-rw-r--r--drivers/rtc/interface.c4
-rw-r--r--drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c12
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/interface.c b/drivers/rtc/interface.c
index de0da545c7a1..a4f56e95cf96 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/interface.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/interface.c
@@ -293,7 +293,7 @@ int rtc_irq_register(struct rtc_device *rtc, struct rtc_task *task)
293 return -EINVAL; 293 return -EINVAL;
294 294
295 /* Cannot register while the char dev is in use */ 295 /* Cannot register while the char dev is in use */
296 if (!(mutex_trylock(&rtc->char_lock))) 296 if (test_and_set_bit(RTC_DEV_BUSY, &rtc->flags))
297 return -EBUSY; 297 return -EBUSY;
298 298
299 spin_lock_irq(&rtc->irq_task_lock); 299 spin_lock_irq(&rtc->irq_task_lock);
@@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ int rtc_irq_register(struct rtc_device *rtc, struct rtc_task *task)
303 } 303 }
304 spin_unlock_irq(&rtc->irq_task_lock); 304 spin_unlock_irq(&rtc->irq_task_lock);
305 305
306 mutex_unlock(&rtc->char_lock); 306 clear_bit(RTC_DEV_BUSY, &rtc->flags);
307 307
308 return retval; 308 return retval;
309} 309}
diff --git a/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c b/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c
index 814583bd2fe7..ae1bf177d625 100644
--- a/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c
+++ b/drivers/rtc/rtc-dev.c
@@ -26,10 +26,7 @@ static int rtc_dev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
26 struct rtc_device, char_dev); 26 struct rtc_device, char_dev);
27 const struct rtc_class_ops *ops = rtc->ops; 27 const struct rtc_class_ops *ops = rtc->ops;
28 28
29 /* We keep the lock as long as the device is in use 29 if (test_and_set_bit(RTC_DEV_BUSY, &rtc->flags))
30 * and return immediately if busy
31 */
32 if (!(mutex_trylock(&rtc->char_lock)))
33 return -EBUSY; 30 return -EBUSY;
34 31
35 file->private_data = rtc; 32 file->private_data = rtc;
@@ -43,8 +40,8 @@ static int rtc_dev_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
43 return 0; 40 return 0;
44 } 41 }
45 42
46 /* something has gone wrong, release the lock */ 43 /* something has gone wrong */
47 mutex_unlock(&rtc->char_lock); 44 clear_bit(RTC_DEV_BUSY, &rtc->flags);
48 return err; 45 return err;
49} 46}
50 47
@@ -405,7 +402,7 @@ static int rtc_dev_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
405 if (rtc->ops->release) 402 if (rtc->ops->release)
406 rtc->ops->release(rtc->dev.parent); 403 rtc->ops->release(rtc->dev.parent);
407 404
408 mutex_unlock(&rtc->char_lock); 405 clear_bit(RTC_DEV_BUSY, &rtc->flags);
409 return 0; 406 return 0;
410} 407}
411 408
@@ -440,7 +437,6 @@ void rtc_dev_prepare(struct rtc_device *rtc)
440 437
441 rtc->dev.devt = MKDEV(MAJOR(rtc_devt), rtc->id); 438 rtc->dev.devt = MKDEV(MAJOR(rtc_devt), rtc->id);
442 439
443 mutex_init(&rtc->char_lock);
444#ifdef CONFIG_RTC_INTF_DEV_UIE_EMUL 440#ifdef CONFIG_RTC_INTF_DEV_UIE_EMUL
445 INIT_WORK(&rtc->uie_task, rtc_uie_task); 441 INIT_WORK(&rtc->uie_task, rtc_uie_task);
446 setup_timer(&rtc->uie_timer, rtc_uie_timer, (unsigned long)rtc); 442 setup_timer(&rtc->uie_timer, rtc_uie_timer, (unsigned long)rtc);