The patch titled Subject: device_cgroup: don't grab mutex in rcu callback has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was device_cgroup-dont-grab-mutex-in-rcu-callback.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Jerry Snitselaar <jerry.snitselaar@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: device_cgroup: don't grab mutex in rcu callback commit 103a197 ("security/device_cgroup: lock assert fails in dev_exception_clean()") grabs devcgroup_mutex to fix assert failure, but mutex can't be grabbed in rcu callback. Since there shouldn't be any other references when css_free is called, mutex isn't needed for list cleanup in devcgroup_css_free(). Signed-off-by: Jerry Snitselaar <jerry.snitselaar@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Tejun Heo <tj@xxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Aristeu Rozanski <aris@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- security/device_cgroup.c | 21 ++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff -puN security/device_cgroup.c~device_cgroup-dont-grab-mutex-in-rcu-callback security/device_cgroup.c --- a/security/device_cgroup.c~device_cgroup-dont-grab-mutex-in-rcu-callback +++ a/security/device_cgroup.c @@ -159,6 +159,16 @@ static void dev_exception_rm(struct dev_ } } +static void __dev_exception_clean(struct dev_cgroup *dev_cgroup) +{ + struct dev_exception_item *ex, *tmp; + + list_for_each_entry_safe(ex, tmp, &dev_cgroup->exceptions, list) { + list_del_rcu(&ex->list); + kfree_rcu(ex, rcu); + } +} + /** * dev_exception_clean - frees all entries of the exception list * @dev_cgroup: dev_cgroup with the exception list to be cleaned @@ -167,14 +177,9 @@ static void dev_exception_rm(struct dev_ */ static void dev_exception_clean(struct dev_cgroup *dev_cgroup) { - struct dev_exception_item *ex, *tmp; - lockdep_assert_held(&devcgroup_mutex); - list_for_each_entry_safe(ex, tmp, &dev_cgroup->exceptions, list) { - list_del_rcu(&ex->list); - kfree_rcu(ex, rcu); - } + __dev_exception_clean(dev_cgroup); } /* @@ -215,9 +220,7 @@ static void devcgroup_css_free(struct cg struct dev_cgroup *dev_cgroup; dev_cgroup = cgroup_to_devcgroup(cgroup); - mutex_lock(&devcgroup_mutex); - dev_exception_clean(dev_cgroup); - mutex_unlock(&devcgroup_mutex); + __dev_exception_clean(dev_cgroup); kfree(dev_cgroup); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jerry.snitselaar@xxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html