regulator: core: Avoid deadlock when regulator_register fails
authorCharles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:39:31 +0000 (09:39 +0000)
committerMark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 10:01:15 +0000 (19:01 +0900)
When regulator_register fails and exits through the scrub path the
regulator_put function was called whilst holding the
regulator_list_mutex, causing deadlock.

This patch adds a private version of the regulator_put function which
can be safely called whilst holding the mutex, replacing the
aforementioned call.

Signed-off-by: Charles Keepax <ckeepax@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
drivers/regulator/core.c

index 5c4829cba6a62de6168c6bb3c4913812e5e8b4e1..3ebc06b280abc02b92e2adf2d705a4cc980c6537 100644 (file)
@@ -1381,22 +1381,14 @@ struct regulator *regulator_get_exclusive(struct device *dev, const char *id)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(regulator_get_exclusive);
 
-/**
- * regulator_put - "free" the regulator source
- * @regulator: regulator source
- *
- * Note: drivers must ensure that all regulator_enable calls made on this
- * regulator source are balanced by regulator_disable calls prior to calling
- * this function.
- */
-void regulator_put(struct regulator *regulator)
+/* Locks held by regulator_put() */
+static void _regulator_put(struct regulator *regulator)
 {
        struct regulator_dev *rdev;
 
        if (regulator == NULL || IS_ERR(regulator))
                return;
 
-       mutex_lock(&regulator_list_mutex);
        rdev = regulator->rdev;
 
        debugfs_remove_recursive(regulator->debugfs);
@@ -1412,6 +1404,20 @@ void regulator_put(struct regulator *regulator)
        rdev->exclusive = 0;
 
        module_put(rdev->owner);
+}
+
+/**
+ * regulator_put - "free" the regulator source
+ * @regulator: regulator source
+ *
+ * Note: drivers must ensure that all regulator_enable calls made on this
+ * regulator source are balanced by regulator_disable calls prior to calling
+ * this function.
+ */
+void regulator_put(struct regulator *regulator)
+{
+       mutex_lock(&regulator_list_mutex);
+       _regulator_put(regulator);
        mutex_unlock(&regulator_list_mutex);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(regulator_put);
@@ -3445,7 +3451,7 @@ unset_supplies:
 
 scrub:
        if (rdev->supply)
-               regulator_put(rdev->supply);
+               _regulator_put(rdev->supply);
        if (rdev->ena_gpio)
                gpio_free(rdev->ena_gpio);
        kfree(rdev->constraints);