Commit 23cb8981 authored Sep 09, 2014 by Tejun Heo

percpu: fix locking regression in the failure path of pcpu_alloc()



While updating locking, b38d08f3 ("percpu: restructure locking")
broke pcpu_create_chunk() creation path in pcpu_alloc().  It returns
without releasing pcpu_alloc_mutex.  Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@lip6.fr>

parent a34375ef

mm/percpu.c

+1 −0

Original line number	Diff line number	Diff line
		@@ -974,6 +974,7 @@ restart:
		if (list_empty(&pcpu_slot[pcpu_nr_slots - 1])) {
		chunk = pcpu_create_chunk();
		if (!chunk) {
		mutex_unlock(&pcpu_alloc_mutex);
		err = "failed to allocate new chunk";
		goto fail;
		}

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