The patch titled Subject: mm/hmm: potential deadlock in nonblocking code has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-hmm-improve-driver-api-to-work-and-wait-over-a-range-fix.patch This patch was dropped because an updated version will be merged ------------------------------------------------------ From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/hmm: potential deadlock in nonblocking code There is a deadlock bug when these functions are used in nonblocking mode. The else side of the if/else statement is only meant to be taken in when the code is used in blocking mode. But, unfortunately, the way the code is now, if we're in non-blocking mode and we succeed in taking the lock then we do the else statement. The else side tries to take lock a second time which results in a deadlock. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190204182304.GA8756@kadam Fixes: a3402cb621c1 ("mm/hmm: improve driver API to work and wait over a range") Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Ralph Campbell <rcampbell@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- --- a/mm/hmm.c~mm-hmm-improve-driver-api-to-work-and-wait-over-a-range-fix +++ a/mm/hmm.c @@ -206,11 +206,12 @@ static int hmm_invalidate_range_start(st update.event = HMM_UPDATE_INVALIDATE; update.blockable = nrange->blockable; - if (!nrange->blockable && !mutex_trylock(&hmm->lock)) { + if (nrange->blockable) + mutex_lock(&hmm->lock); + else if (!mutex_trylock(&hmm->lock)) { ret = -EAGAIN; goto out; - } else - mutex_lock(&hmm->lock); + } hmm->notifiers++; list_for_each_entry(range, &hmm->ranges, list) { if (update.end < range->start || update.start >= range->end) @@ -220,12 +221,12 @@ static int hmm_invalidate_range_start(st } mutex_unlock(&hmm->lock); - - if (!nrange->blockable && !down_read_trylock(&hmm->mirrors_sem)) { + if (nrange->blockable) + down_read(&hmm->mirrors_sem); + else if (!down_read_trylock(&hmm->mirrors_sem)) { ret = -EAGAIN; goto out; - } else - down_read(&hmm->mirrors_sem); + } list_for_each_entry(mirror, &hmm->mirrors, list) { int ret; _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx are