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    devtmpfs: Convert dirlock to a mutex · f1f76f86
    Thomas Gleixner authored
    devtmpfs has a rw_lock dirlock which serializes delete_path and
    create_path.
    
    This code was obviously never tested with the usual set of debugging
    facilities enabled. In the dirlock held sections the code calls:
    
     - vfs functions which take mutexes
     - kmalloc(, GFP_KERNEL)
    
    In both code pathes the might sleep warning triggers and spams dmesg.
    
    Convert the rw_lock to a mutex. There is no reason why this needs to
    be a rwlock.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
    Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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