Use helper functions to access current->state.
Direct assignments are prone to races and therefore buggy.
current->state = TASK_RUNNING can be replaced by __set_current_state()
Thanks to Peter Zijlstra for the exact definition of the problem.
Suggested-By: Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Fabian Frederick <f...@skynet.be>
---
net/irda/ircomm/ircomm_tty.c | 2 +-
net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c | 4 ++--
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/irda/ircomm/ircomm_tty.c b/net/irda/ircomm/ircomm_tty.c
index 40695b9..9940a41 100644
--- a/net/irda/ircomm/ircomm_tty.c
+++ b/net/irda/ircomm/ircomm_tty.c
@@ -811,7 +811,7 @@ static void ircomm_tty_wait_until_sent(struct tty_struct
*tty, int timeout)
break;
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&self->spinlock, flags);
- current->state = TASK_RUNNING;
+ __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
}
/*
diff --git a/net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c b/net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
index 3c83a1e..1215693 100644
--- a/net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
+++ b/net/irda/irnet/irnet_ppp.c
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ irnet_ctrl_read(irnet_socket * ap,
/* Put ourselves on the wait queue to be woken up */
add_wait_queue(&irnet_events.rwait, &wait);
- current->state = TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE;
+ set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
for(;;)
{
/* If there is unread events */
@@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ irnet_ctrl_read(irnet_socket * ap,
/* Yield and wait to be woken up */
schedule();
}
- current->state = TASK_RUNNING;
+ __set_current_state(TASK_RUNNING);
remove_wait_queue(&irnet_events.rwait, &wait);
/* Did we got it ? */
--
2.1.0
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