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powerpc/spufs: reference context while dropping state mutex in scheduler
authorJeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:59:12 +0000 (14:59 +1000)
committerJeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Thu, 14 Aug 2008 04:59:12 +0000 (14:59 +1000)
commit8d5636fbca202f61fdb808fc9e20c0142291d802
treee6d9d9375f0f7894931749b687e66a19e5dffa84
parentd9dd421fd6ed17af55d27c8d93a9f561be0ff50f
powerpc/spufs: reference context while dropping state mutex in scheduler

Based on an original patch from Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>.

Currently, there is a possible reference-after-free in the spusched
code - contexts may be freed after we have released their state_mutex
in spusched_tick and find_victim.

This change takes a reference to the context before releasing the
mutex, so that the context doesn't get destroyed.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/spufs/sched.c