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authorStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>2008-08-16 00:11:48 +0200
committerStefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>2008-10-15 22:21:08 +0200
commit10963ea1bd966ba46a46178c4d6abcdf3c23538d (patch)
treed11eb5adbca18c9570c28fff4dffe0f7d4d1da1c /COPYING
parented6ffd08084c68e9c3911e27706dec9d4c9a4175 (diff)
ieee1394: raw1394: replace BKL by local mutex, make ioctl() and mmap() thread-safe
This removes the last usage of the Big Kernel Lock from the ieee1394 stack, i.e. from raw1394's (unlocked_)ioctl and compat_ioctl. The ioctl()s don't need to take the BKL, but they need to be serialized per struct file *. In particular, accesses to ->iso_state need to be serial. We simply use a blocking mutex for this purpose because libraw1394 does not use O_NONBLOCK. In practice, there is no lock contention anyway because most if not all libraw1394 clients use a libraw1394 handle only in a single thread. mmap() also accesses ->iso_state. Until now this was unprotected against concurrent changes by ioctls. Fix this bug while we are at it. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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