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Eric W. Biederman 59b015133c Input: serio - fix potential deadlock when unbinding drivers
sysfs_remove_group() waits for sysfs attributes to be removed, therefore
we do not need to worry about driver-specific attributes being accessed
after driver has been detached from the device. In fact, attempts to take
serio->drv_mutex in attribute methods may lead to the following deadlock:

                                          sysfs_read_file()
                                            fill_read_buffer()
                                              sysfs_get_active_two()
                                                psmouse_attr_show_helper()
                                                  serio_pin_driver()
serio_disconnect_driver()
  mutex_lock(&serio->drv_mutex);
                                <-------->        mutex_lock(&serio_drv_mutex);
    psmouse_disconnect()
      sysfs_remove_group(... psmouse_attr_group);
        ....
        sysfs_deactivate();
          wait_for_completion();

Fix this by removing calls to serio_[un]pin_driver() and functions themselves
and using driver-private mutexes to serialize access to attribute's set()
methods that may change device state.

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2010-01-06 00:14:32 -08:00
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acpi Merge branch 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq 2009-12-11 15:59:23 -08:00
asm-generic Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2009-12-14 09:58:24 -08:00
crypto
drm drm/nouveau: Add DRM driver for NVIDIA GPUs 2009-12-11 21:29:34 +10:00
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linux Input: serio - fix potential deadlock when unbinding drivers 2010-01-06 00:14:32 -08:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB (13540): ir-common: Cleanup get key evdev code 2009-12-05 18:42:22 -02:00
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net Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/percpu 2009-12-14 09:58:24 -08:00
pcmcia pcmcia: CodingStyle fixes 2009-12-07 22:23:40 +01:00
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