It is unsafe to return an entry pointer and release the map_entries_lock. So we 
should
not hold the map_entries_lock separately in firmware_map_find_entry() and
firmware_map_remove_entry(). Hold the map_entries_lock across find and remove
/sys/firmware/memmap/X operation.

And also, users of these two functions need to be careful to hold the lock when 
using
these two functions.

The suggestion is from Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Tang Chen <tangc...@cn.fujitsu.com>
---
 drivers/firmware/memmap.c |   25 +++++++++++++++++--------
 1 files changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/firmware/memmap.c b/drivers/firmware/memmap.c
index 4211da5..940c4e9 100644
--- a/drivers/firmware/memmap.c
+++ b/drivers/firmware/memmap.c
@@ -150,12 +150,12 @@ static int firmware_map_add_entry(u64 start, u64 end,
  * firmware_map_remove_entry() - Does the real work to remove a firmware
  * memmap entry.
  * @entry: removed entry.
+ *
+ * The caller must hold map_entries_lock, and release it properly.
  **/
 static inline void firmware_map_remove_entry(struct firmware_map_entry *entry)
 {
-       spin_lock(&map_entries_lock);
        list_del(&entry->list);
-       spin_unlock(&map_entries_lock);
 }
 
 /*
@@ -188,23 +188,28 @@ static inline void remove_sysfs_fw_map_entry(struct 
firmware_map_entry *entry)
 }
 
 /*
- * Search memmap entry
+ * firmware_map_find_entry: Search memmap entry.
+ * @start: Start of the memory range.
+ * @end:   End of the memory range (exclusive).
+ * @type:  Type of the memory range.
+ *
+ * This function is to find the memmap entey of a given memory range.
+ * The caller must hold map_entries_lock, and must not release the lock
+ * until the processing of the returned entry has completed.
+ *
+ * Return pointer to the entry to be found on success, or NULL on failure.
  */
-
 static struct firmware_map_entry * __meminit
 firmware_map_find_entry(u64 start, u64 end, const char *type)
 {
        struct firmware_map_entry *entry;
 
-       spin_lock(&map_entries_lock);
        list_for_each_entry(entry, &map_entries, list)
                if ((entry->start == start) && (entry->end == end) &&
                    (!strcmp(entry->type, type))) {
-                       spin_unlock(&map_entries_lock);
                        return entry;
                }
 
-       spin_unlock(&map_entries_lock);
        return NULL;
 }
 
@@ -274,11 +279,15 @@ int __meminit firmware_map_remove(u64 start, u64 end, 
const char *type)
 {
        struct firmware_map_entry *entry;
 
+       spin_lock(&map_entries_lock);
        entry = firmware_map_find_entry(start, end - 1, type);
-       if (!entry)
+       if (!entry) {
+               spin_unlock(&map_entries_lock);
                return -EINVAL;
+       }
 
        firmware_map_remove_entry(entry);
+       spin_unlock(&map_entries_lock);
 
        /* remove the memmap entry */
        remove_sysfs_fw_map_entry(entry);
-- 
1.7.1

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