Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] xen/pvcalls: fix potential endless loop in pvcalls-front.c

[Juergen Gross <jgross@xxxxxxxx>]

On 06/11/17 23:17, Stefano Stabellini wrote:
> mutex_trylock() returns 1 if you take the lock and 0 if not. Assume you
> take in_mutex on the first try, but you can't take out_mutex. Next times
> you call mutex_trylock() in_mutex is going to fail. It's an endless
> loop.
> 
> Solve the problem by moving the two mutex_trylock calls to two separate
> loops.
> 
> Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@xxxxxxxxxx>
> CC: boris.ostrovsky@xxxxxxxxxx
> CC: jgross@xxxxxxxx
> ---
>  drivers/xen/pvcalls-front.c | 5 +++--
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/xen/pvcalls-front.c b/drivers/xen/pvcalls-front.c
> index 0c1ec68..047dce7 100644
> --- a/drivers/xen/pvcalls-front.c
> +++ b/drivers/xen/pvcalls-front.c
> @@ -1048,8 +1048,9 @@ int pvcalls_front_release(struct socket *sock)
>                * is set to NULL -- we only need to wait for the existing
>                * waiters to return.
>                */
> -             while (!mutex_trylock(&map->active.in_mutex) ||
> -                        !mutex_trylock(&map->active.out_mutex))
> +             while (!mutex_trylock(&map->active.in_mutex))
> +                     cpu_relax();
> +             while (!mutex_trylock(&map->active.out_mutex))
>                       cpu_relax();

Any reason you don't just use mutex_lock()?


Juergen

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