ieee1394: dv1394: fix possible deadlock in multithreaded clients
Fix a possible though highly unlikely deadlock: Thread A: Thread B: - acquire mmap_sem - dv1394_ioctl/read/write() - dv1394_mmap() - acquire video->mtx - acquire video->mtx - copy_to/from_user(), possible page fault: acquire mmap_sem The simplest fix is to use mutex_trylock() instead of mutex_lock() in dv1394_mmap(). This changes the behavior under contention in a way which is visible to userspace clients. However, my guess is that no clients exist which use mmap vs. ioctl/read/write on the dv1394 character device file interface in concurrent threads. Reported-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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