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authorStefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>2017-11-15 13:20:21 -0800
committerBoris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>2017-11-15 16:38:15 -0500
commit646d944c2ef5a3b298c4e150494c71b9272d8b47 (patch)
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xen/pvcalls: fix potential endless loop in pvcalls-front.c
mutex_trylock() returns 1 if you take the lock and 0 if not. Assume you
take in_mutex on the first try, but you can't take out_mutex. Next times
you call mutex_trylock() in_mutex is going to fail. It's an endless
loop.

Solve the problem by waiting until the global refcount is 1 instead (the
refcount is 1 when the only active pvcalls frontend function is
pvcalls_front_release).

Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com>
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