printk: avoid double lock acquire
Commit 4f2a8d3cf5e ("printk: Fix console_sem vs logbuf_lock unlock race")
introduced another silly bug where we would want to acquire an already
held lock. Avoid this.
Reported-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 1455a0d..7982a0a 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -1293,10 +1293,11 @@
raw_spin_lock(&logbuf_lock);
if (con_start != log_end)
retry = 1;
+ raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&logbuf_lock, flags);
+
if (retry && console_trylock())
goto again;
- raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&logbuf_lock, flags);
if (wake_klogd)
wake_up_klogd();
}
