ipc/sem.c: synchronize the proc interface

[karo-tx-linux.git] / ipc / sem.c

diff --git a/ipc/sem.c b/ipc/sem.c
index e20658d76bb5289b30e2c923d72137fd074aef9f..cd6a733011a281b44fc62ac67079d60851269994 100644 (file)
--- a/ipc/sem.c
+++ b/ipc/sem.c
@@ -2103,6 +2103,14 @@ static int sysvipc_sem_proc_show(struct seq_file *s, void *it)
        struct sem_array *sma = it;
        time_t sem_otime;
 
+       /*
+        * The proc interface isn't aware of sem_lock(), it calls
+        * ipc_lock_object() directly (in sysvipc_find_ipc).
+        * In order to stay compatible with sem_lock(), we must wait until
+        * all simple semop() calls have left their critical regions.
+        */
+       sem_wait_array(sma);
+
        sem_otime = get_semotime(sma);
 
        return seq_printf(s,