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linux/drivers/staging/android
Todd Poynor 0a9dea2817 ashmem: avoid deadlock between read and mmap calls
Avoid holding ashmem_mutex across code that can page fault.  Page faults
grab the mmap_sem for the process, which are also held by mmap calls
prior to calling ashmem_mmap, which locks ashmem_mutex.  The reversed
order of locking between the two can deadlock.

The calls that can page fault are read() and the ASHMEM_SET_NAME and
ASHMEM_GET_NAME ioctls.  Move the code that accesses userspace pages
outside the ashmem_mutex.

Bug: 9261835
Change-Id: If1322e981d29c889a56cdc9dfcbc6df2729a45e9
Signed-off-by: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@google.com>

Conflicts:
	drivers/staging/android/ashmem.c
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