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Simon Arlott 5e37b8eb6d dvb-core: fix several locking related problems
dvb-core: fix several locking related problems

Fix several instances of dvb-core functions using mutex_lock_interruptible
and returning -ERESTARTSYS where the calling function will either never
retry or never check the return value.

These cause a race condition with dvb_dmxdev_filter_free and
dvb_dvr_release, both of which are filesystem release functions whose
return value is ignored and will never be retried.  When this happens it
becomes impossible to open dvr0 again (-EBUSY) since it has not been
released properly.

(cherry picked from commit c278850206)

Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-By: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-06 03:43:16 -07:00
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