Re: mplayer v4l hangs in 2.6.25.2/4 (likely regression)

[Arjan van de Ven]

and here is an (untest) patch that should fix this problem:
Koos, can you apply this to your kernel tree and report back if this
fixes your deadlock?



From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: [PATCH] Fix a deadlock in the bttv driver

vidiocgmbuf() does this:
        mutex_lock(&fh->cap.vb_lock);
        retval = videobuf_mmap_setup(&fh->cap, gbuffers, gbufsize,
                                     V4L2_MEMORY_MMAP);

and videobuf_mmap_setup() then just does
        mutex_lock(&q->vb_lock);
        ret = __videobuf_mmap_setup(q, bcount, bsize, memory);
        mutex_unlock(&q->vb_lock);

which is an obvious double-take deadlock.

This patch fixes this by having vidiocgmbuf() just call the __videobuf_mmap_setup
function instead.

Reported-by: Koos Vriezen <koos.vriezen@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
 drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c |    2 +-
 drivers/media/video/videobuf-core.c     |    3 ++-
 include/media/videobuf-core.h           |    3 +++
 3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c b/drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c
index 2ca3e9c..0165aac 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c
@@ -2613,7 +2613,7 @@ static int vidiocgmbuf(struct file *file, void *priv, struct video_mbuf *mbuf)
 	struct bttv_fh *fh = priv;
 
 	mutex_lock(&fh->cap.vb_lock);
-	retval = videobuf_mmap_setup(&fh->cap, gbuffers, gbufsize,
+	retval = __videobuf_mmap_setup(&fh->cap, gbuffers, gbufsize,
 				     V4L2_MEMORY_MMAP);
 	if (retval < 0) {
 		mutex_unlock(&fh->cap.vb_lock);
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/videobuf-core.c b/drivers/media/video/videobuf-core.c
index 982f446..0a88c44 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/videobuf-core.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/videobuf-core.c
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ int videobuf_mmap_free(struct videobuf_queue *q)
 }
 
 /* Locking: Caller holds q->vb_lock */
-static int __videobuf_mmap_setup(struct videobuf_queue *q,
+int __videobuf_mmap_setup(struct videobuf_queue *q,
 			unsigned int bcount, unsigned int bsize,
 			enum v4l2_memory memory)
 {
@@ -1129,6 +1129,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(videobuf_read_stream);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(videobuf_read_one);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(videobuf_poll_stream);
 
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__videobuf_mmap_setup);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(videobuf_mmap_setup);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(videobuf_mmap_free);
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(videobuf_mmap_mapper);
diff --git a/include/media/videobuf-core.h b/include/media/videobuf-core.h
index 5b39a22..874f134 100644
--- a/include/media/videobuf-core.h
+++ b/include/media/videobuf-core.h
@@ -237,6 +237,9 @@ unsigned int videobuf_poll_stream(struct file *file,
 int videobuf_mmap_setup(struct videobuf_queue *q,
 			unsigned int bcount, unsigned int bsize,
 			enum v4l2_memory memory);
+int __videobuf_mmap_setup(struct videobuf_queue *q,
+			unsigned int bcount, unsigned int bsize,
+			enum v4l2_memory memory);
 int videobuf_mmap_free(struct videobuf_queue *q);
 int videobuf_mmap_mapper(struct videobuf_queue *q,
 			 struct vm_area_struct *vma);
-- 
1.5.4.5

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