Fix a deadlock in the bttv driver

vidiocgmbuf() does this:
        mutex_lock(&fh->cap.vb_lock);
        retval = videobuf_mmap_setup(&fh->cap, gbuffers, gbufsize,
                                     V4L2_MEMORY_MMAP);

and videobuf_mmap_setup() then just does
        mutex_lock(&q->vb_lock);
        ret = __videobuf_mmap_setup(q, bcount, bsize, memory);
        mutex_unlock(&q->vb_lock);

which is an obvious double-take deadlock.

This patch fixes this by having vidiocgmbuf() just call the
__videobuf_mmap_setup function instead.

Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <[email protected]>
Reported-by: Koos Vriezen <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
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Arjan van de Ven 2008-05-20 09:53:52 -07:00 • committed by Linus Torvalds
commit 81b2dbcad8
3 changed files with 6 additions and 2 deletions

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@ -237,6 +237,9 @@ unsigned int videobuf_poll_stream(struct file *file,
int videobuf_mmap_setup(struct videobuf_queue *q,
unsigned int bcount, unsigned int bsize,
enum v4l2_memory memory);
int __videobuf_mmap_setup(struct videobuf_queue *q,
unsigned int bcount, unsigned int bsize,
enum v4l2_memory memory);
int videobuf_mmap_free(struct videobuf_queue *q);
int videobuf_mmap_mapper(struct videobuf_queue *q,
struct vm_area_struct *vma);