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From: Julia Lawall on 20 Jun 2010 07:30
From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk>

The path around the loop ends with the lock held, so the call to mutex_lock
is moved before the beginning of the loop.

A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as
follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/)

// <smpl>
@locked@
expression E1;
position p;
@@

read_lock(E1@p,...);

@r exists@
expression x <= locked.E1;
expression locked.E1;
expression E2;
identifier lock;
position locked.p,p1,p2;
@@

*lock(a)p1 (E1@p,...);
.... when != E1
when != \(x = E2\|&x\)
*lock(a)p2 (E1,...);
// </smpl>

Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk>

---
Compile tested only.

drivers/hid/hid-debug.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-debug.c b/drivers/hid/hid-debug.c
index c940267..850d02a 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-debug.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-debug.c
@@ -949,8 +949,8 @@ static ssize_t hid_debug_events_read(struct file *file, char __user *buffer,
int ret = 0, len;
DECLARE_WAITQUEUE(wait, current);

+ mutex_lock(&list->read_mutex);
while (ret == 0) {
- mutex_lock(&list->read_mutex);
if (list->head == list->tail) {
add_wait_queue(&list->hdev->debug_wait, &wait);
set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
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