On 3.2.2016 01:58, Raghava Aditya Renukunta wrote: > aac_mutex was used to create protect the ioctl path for only the > compat path, it would be make more sense to place mutex in > aac_do_ioctl, which is the main ioctl function call that handles > all ioctl commands. > > Created new mutex ioctl_mutex in struct aac_dev to protect switch > case in aac_do_ioctl and removed aac_mutex from aac_cfg_ioctl and > aac_compat_do_ioctl > > Signed-off-by: Raghava Aditya Renukunta <RaghavaAditya.Renukunta@xxxxxxxx> > --- > drivers/scsi/aacraid/aacraid.h | 1 + > drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c | 4 ++++ > drivers/scsi/aacraid/linit.c | 12 ++---------- > 3 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/aacraid.h b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/aacraid.h > index 2916288..75bc65e 100644 > --- a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/aacraid.h > +++ b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/aacraid.h > @@ -1124,6 +1124,7 @@ struct aac_dev > struct fib *free_fib; > spinlock_t fib_lock; > > + struct mutex ioctl_mutex; > struct aac_queue_block *queues; > /* > * The user API will use an IOCTL to register itself to receive > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c > index 54195a1..4d5f4e7 100644 > --- a/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c > +++ b/drivers/scsi/aacraid/commctrl.c > @@ -855,6 +855,8 @@ int aac_do_ioctl(struct aac_dev * dev, int cmd, void __user *arg) > { > int status; > > + mutex_lock(&dev->ioctl_mutex); > + status = aac_dev_ioctl(dev, cmd, arg); if (status != -ENOTTY) return status; That return^ needs a mutex unlock . --tms -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html