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Commit c5bde238 authored by Jerome Marchand's avatar Jerome Marchand Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Staging: zram: Replace mutex lock by a R/W semaphore


Currently, nothing protects zram table from concurrent access.
For instance, ZRAM_UNCOMPRESSED bit can be cleared by zram_free_page()
called from a concurrent write between the time ZRAM_UNCOMPRESSED has
been set and the time it is tested to unmap KM_USER0 in
zram_bvec_write(). This ultimately leads to kernel panic.

Also, a read request can occurs when the page has been freed by a
running write request and before it has been updated, leading to
zero filled block being incorrectly read and "Read before write"
error message.

This patch replace the current mutex by a rw_semaphore. It extends
the protection to zram table (currently, only compression buffers are
protected) and read requests (currently, only write requests are
protected).

Signed-off-by: default avatarJerome Marchand <jmarchan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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