[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "pinctrl: Fix two deadlocks" has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    pinctrl: Fix two deadlocks

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt6.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 455cb007bd4d10a706d67158f17de1cb0c671d12 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jim Lin <jilin at nvidia.com>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 20:25:05 +0800
Subject: pinctrl: Fix two deadlocks

commit db93facfb0ef542aa5d8079e47580b3e669a4d82 upstream.

This patch is to fix two deadlock cases.
Deadlock 1:
CPU #1
 pinctrl_register-> pinctrl_get ->
 create_pinctrl
 (Holding lock pinctrl_maps_mutex)
 -> get_pinctrl_dev_from_devname
 (Trying to acquire lock pinctrldev_list_mutex)
CPU #0
 pinctrl_unregister
 (Holding lock pinctrldev_list_mutex)
 -> pinctrl_put ->> pinctrl_free ->
 pinctrl_dt_free_maps -> pinctrl_unregister_map
 (Trying to acquire lock pinctrl_maps_mutex)

Simply to say
CPU#1 is holding lock A and trying to acquire lock B,
CPU#0 is holding lock B and trying to acquire lock A.

Deadlock 2:
CPU #3
 pinctrl_register-> pinctrl_get ->
 create_pinctrl
 (Holding lock pinctrl_maps_mutex)
 -> get_pinctrl_dev_from_devname
 (Trying to acquire lock pinctrldev_list_mutex)
CPU #2
 pinctrl_unregister
 (Holding lock pctldev->mutex)
 -> pinctrl_put ->> pinctrl_free ->
 pinctrl_dt_free_maps -> pinctrl_unregister_map
 (Trying to acquire lock pinctrl_maps_mutex)
CPU #0
 tegra_gpio_request
 (Holding lock pinctrldev_list_mutex)
 -> pinctrl_get_device_gpio_range
 (Trying to acquire lock pctldev->mutex)

Simply to say
CPU#3 is holding lock A and trying to acquire lock D,
CPU#2 is holding lock B and trying to acquire lock A,
CPU#0 is holding lock D and trying to acquire lock B.

Signed-off-by: Jim Lin <jilin at nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij at linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/pinctrl/core.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/pinctrl/core.c b/drivers/pinctrl/core.c
index e09474ecde23..81ca0ce4c909 100644
--- a/drivers/pinctrl/core.c
+++ b/drivers/pinctrl/core.c
@@ -1815,14 +1815,15 @@ void pinctrl_unregister(struct pinctrl_dev *pctldev)
 	if (pctldev == NULL)
 		return;

-	mutex_lock(&pinctrldev_list_mutex);
 	mutex_lock(&pctldev->mutex);
-
 	pinctrl_remove_device_debugfs(pctldev);
+	mutex_unlock(&pctldev->mutex);

 	if (!IS_ERR(pctldev->p))
 		pinctrl_put(pctldev->p);

+	mutex_lock(&pinctrldev_list_mutex);
+	mutex_lock(&pctldev->mutex);
 	/* TODO: check that no pinmuxes are still active? */
 	list_del(&pctldev->node);
 	/* Destroy descriptor tree */
--
2.1.4