[PATCH] "Fix uidhash_lock <-> RXU deadlock" fix

I get storms of warnings from local_bh_enable().  Better-tested patches,
please.

Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/user.c b/kernel/user.c
index d1ae2349347e..d9deae43a9ab 100644
--- a/kernel/user.c
+++ b/kernel/user.c
@@ -33,6 +33,10 @@ static struct list_head uidhash_table[UIDHASH_SZ];
  * The uidhash_lock is mostly taken from process context, but it is
  * occasionally also taken from softirq/tasklet context, when
  * task-structs get RCU-freed. Hence all locking must be softirq-safe.
+ * But free_uid() is also called with local interrupts disabled, and running
+ * local_bh_enable() with local interrupts disabled is an error - we'll run
+ * softirq callbacks, and they can unconditionally enable interrupts, and
+ * the caller of free_uid() didn't expect that..
  */
 static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(uidhash_lock);
 
@@ -89,16 +93,19 @@ static inline struct user_struct *uid_hash_find(uid_t uid, struct list_head *has
 struct user_struct *find_user(uid_t uid)
 {
         struct user_struct *ret;
+        unsigned long flags;
 
-        spin_lock_bh(&uidhash_lock);
+        spin_lock_irqsave(&uidhash_lock, flags);
         ret = uid_hash_find(uid, uidhashentry(uid));
-        spin_unlock_bh(&uidhash_lock);
+        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&uidhash_lock, flags);
         return ret;
 }
 
 void free_uid(struct user_struct *up)
 {
-        local_bh_disable();
+        unsigned long flags;
+
+        local_irq_save(flags);
         if (up && atomic_dec_and_lock(&up->__count, &uidhash_lock)) {
                 uid_hash_remove(up);
                 key_put(up->uid_keyring);
@@ -106,7 +113,7 @@ void free_uid(struct user_struct *up)
                 kmem_cache_free(uid_cachep, up);
                 spin_unlock(&uidhash_lock);
         }
-        local_bh_enable();
+        local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
 
 struct user_struct * alloc_uid(uid_t uid)
@@ -114,9 +121,9 @@ struct user_struct * alloc_uid(uid_t uid)
         struct list_head *hashent = uidhashentry(uid);
         struct user_struct *up;
 
-        spin_lock_bh(&uidhash_lock);
+        spin_lock_irq(&uidhash_lock);
         up = uid_hash_find(uid, hashent);
-        spin_unlock_bh(&uidhash_lock);
+        spin_unlock_irq(&uidhash_lock);
 
         if (!up) {
                 struct user_struct *new;
@@ -146,7 +153,7 @@ struct user_struct * alloc_uid(uid_t uid)
                  * Before adding this, check whether we raced
                  * on adding the same user already..
                  */
-                spin_lock_bh(&uidhash_lock);
+                spin_lock_irq(&uidhash_lock);
                 up = uid_hash_find(uid, hashent);
                 if (up) {
                         key_put(new->uid_keyring);
@@ -156,7 +163,7 @@ struct user_struct * alloc_uid(uid_t uid)
                         uid_hash_insert(new, hashent);
                         up = new;
                 }
-                spin_unlock_bh(&uidhash_lock);
+                spin_unlock_irq(&uidhash_lock);
 
         }
         return up;
@@ -192,9 +199,9 @@ static int __init uid_cache_init(void)
                 INIT_LIST_HEAD(uidhash_table + n);
 
         /* Insert the root user immediately (init already runs as root) */
-        spin_lock_bh(&uidhash_lock);
+        spin_lock_irq(&uidhash_lock);
         uid_hash_insert(&root_user, uidhashentry(0));
-        spin_unlock_bh(&uidhash_lock);
+        spin_unlock_irq(&uidhash_lock);
 
         return 0;
 }