From 09dc3cf93f7d16fdd37a0ad8486faebb5e2769ec Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 14:34:13 -0800
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] printk: avoid double lock acquire

Commit 4f2a8d3cf5e ("printk: Fix console_sem vs logbuf_lock unlock race")
introduced another silly bug where we would want to acquire an already
held lock.  Avoid this.

Reported-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 kernel/printk.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/printk.c b/kernel/printk.c
index 1455a0d4eedd..7982a0a841ea 100644
--- a/kernel/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk.c
@@ -1293,10 +1293,11 @@ again:
 	raw_spin_lock(&logbuf_lock);
 	if (con_start != log_end)
 		retry = 1;
+	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&logbuf_lock, flags);
+
 	if (retry && console_trylock())
 		goto again;
 
-	raw_spin_unlock_irqrestore(&logbuf_lock, flags);
 	if (wake_klogd)
 		wake_up_klogd();
 }
-- 
2.39.2