[PATCH] 2.4.18 Eicon ISDN driver fix.

petter wahlman (petter@bluezone.no)
26 Feb 2002 20:26:18 +0100


The following code is calling a possibly blocking operation while
holding a spinlock.

Petter Wahlman

--- linux-2.4.18/drivers/isdn/eicon/eicon_mod.c Fri Dec 21 18:41:54 2001
+++ linux-2.4.18-pw/drivers/isdn/eicon/eicon_mod.c Mon Feb 25
23:45:05 2002
@@ -665,8 +665,11 @@
else
cnt = skb->len;

- if (user)
+ if (user) {
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&eicon_lock,
flags);
copy_to_user(p, skb->data, cnt);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&eicon_lock, flags);
+ }
else
memcpy(p, skb->data, cnt);

-
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