[merged] lkdtm-avoid-calling-lkdtm_do_action-with-spin-lock-held.patch removed from -mm tree

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The patch titled
     Subject: lkdtm: avoid calling lkdtm_do_action() with spinlock held
has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename was
     lkdtm-avoid-calling-lkdtm_do_action-with-spin-lock-held.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/

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From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: lkdtm: avoid calling lkdtm_do_action() with spinlock held

lkdtm_do_action() may call sleeping functions like kmalloc(), so do not
call it with spin lock held.

Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@xxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Dave Young <dyoung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---

 drivers/misc/lkdtm.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN drivers/misc/lkdtm.c~lkdtm-avoid-calling-lkdtm_do_action-with-spin-lock-held drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
--- a/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c~lkdtm-avoid-calling-lkdtm_do_action-with-spin-lock-held
+++ a/drivers/misc/lkdtm.c
@@ -354,6 +354,7 @@ static void lkdtm_do_action(enum ctype w
 static void lkdtm_handler(void)
 {
 	unsigned long flags;
+	bool do_it = false;
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&count_lock, flags);
 	count--;
@@ -361,10 +362,13 @@ static void lkdtm_handler(void)
 			cp_name_to_str(cpoint), cp_type_to_str(cptype), count);
 
 	if (count == 0) {
-		lkdtm_do_action(cptype);
+		do_it = true;
 		count = cpoint_count;
 	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&count_lock, flags);
+
+	if (do_it)
+		lkdtm_do_action(cptype);
 }
 
 static int lkdtm_register_cpoint(enum cname which)
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx are

origin.patch
linux-next.patch
x86-mm-fix-the-size-calculation-of-mapping-tables.patch
nmi-watchdog-do-not-use-cpp-symbol-in-kconfig.patch
kcore-make-get_sparsemem_vmemmap_info-static.patch
proc-clean-up-proc-pid-environ-handling.patch

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