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Authored by pratyush on Jul 30 2018, 10:35 AM.
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This fixes the panic caused by lock recursion when the grant-table free callbacks are used.

The cause of the recursion is: check_free_callbacks() is always called with the lock gnttab_list_lock held. So, the callback function is called with the lock held. So, when the client uses any of the grant reference allocation methods get_free_entries() is called, which tries to acquire gnttab_list_lock, causing a recursion on the non-recursive lock.

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This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jul 30 2018, 11:36 AM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.