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authorBrandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>2008-02-26 23:52:55 -0800
committerBrandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org>2008-02-26 23:52:55 -0800
commit50078bb28b21b2ffb6ddd69c02a97cf2762661ec (patch)
tree5f70eb24f88cfd79b65b3197a4025a05bfcab5dc /linux/drivers/media/video
parente62b2d9c5b8121e5b6325b2337cb60fd64bfba9c (diff)
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v4l: Deadlock in videobuf-core for DQBUF waiting on QBUF
Avoid a deadlock where DQBUF is holding the vb_lock while waiting on a QBUF which also needs the vb_lock. Reported by Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>. From: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org> Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'linux/drivers/media/video')
-rw-r--r--linux/drivers/media/video/videobuf-core.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/linux/drivers/media/video/videobuf-core.c b/linux/drivers/media/video/videobuf-core.c
index b5395c538..86f32545c 100644
--- a/linux/drivers/media/video/videobuf-core.c
+++ b/linux/drivers/media/video/videobuf-core.c
@@ -606,7 +606,9 @@ int videobuf_dqbuf(struct videobuf_queue *q,
goto done;
}
buf = list_entry(q->stream.next, struct videobuf_buffer, stream);
+ mutex_unlock(&q->vb_lock);
retval = videobuf_waiton(buf, nonblocking, 1);
+ mutex_lock(&q->vb_lock);
if (retval < 0) {
dprintk(1, "dqbuf: waiton returned %d\n", retval);
goto done;