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vmw_balloon: release lock on error in vmballoon_reset() 

We added some locking to this function but forgot to drop the lock on
these two error paths.  This bug would lead to an immediate deadlock.

Fixes: c7b3690fb1 ("vmw_balloon: stats rework")
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Dan Carpenter 2019-02-11 21:45:45 +03:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 32ea33a044
commit d04071a5d6
1 changed files with 3 additions and 2 deletions
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drivers/misc/vmw_balloon.c
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@ -1298,7 +1298,7 @@ static void vmballoon_reset(struct vmballoon *b)
vmballoon_pop(b);
if (vmballoon_send_start(b, VMW_BALLOON_CAPABILITIES))
return;
goto unlock;
if ((b->capabilities & VMW_BALLOON_BATCHED_CMDS) != 0) {
if (vmballoon_init_batching(b)) {
@ -1309,7 +1309,7 @@ static void vmballoon_reset(struct vmballoon *b)
* The guest will retry in one second.
*/
vmballoon_send_start(b, 0);
return;
goto unlock;
}
} else if ((b->capabilities & VMW_BALLOON_BASIC_CMDS) != 0) {
vmballoon_deinit_batching(b);
@ -1325,6 +1325,7 @@ static void vmballoon_reset(struct vmballoon *b)
if (vmballoon_send_guest_id(b))
pr_err("failed to send guest ID to the host\n");
unlock:
up_write(&b->conf_sem);
}