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| author | Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> | 2008-05-02 16:45:10 -0700 |
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| committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2008-05-02 16:45:10 -0700 |
| commit | 026672d0997c911c9bef9aabe862884fc0add106 (patch) | |
| tree | 6867e7e256f23102e5f73e267aa8a8b790717467 /drivers/bluetooth | |
| parent | 84994e16f25dabe234be4fc2d323ec9db95b87cb (diff) | |
| download | lwn-026672d0997c911c9bef9aabe862884fc0add106.tar.gz lwn-026672d0997c911c9bef9aabe862884fc0add106.zip | |
hci_usb.h: fix hard-to-trigger race
If someone tries to _urb_unlink while _urb_queue_head is running, he'll see
_urb->queue == NULL and fail to do any locking. Prevent that from happening
by strategically placed barriers.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/bluetooth')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/bluetooth/hci_usb.h | 21 |
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_usb.h b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_usb.h index 414080a4e8ff..1790cc8e431e 100644 --- a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_usb.h +++ b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_usb.h @@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ static inline void _urb_queue_head(struct _urb_queue *q, struct _urb *_urb) { unsigned long flags; spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags); - list_add(&_urb->list, &q->head); _urb->queue = q; + /* _urb_unlink needs to know which spinlock to use, thus mb(). */ + _urb->queue = q; mb(); list_add(&_urb->list, &q->head); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags); } @@ -78,19 +79,23 @@ static inline void _urb_queue_tail(struct _urb_queue *q, struct _urb *_urb) { unsigned long flags; spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags); - list_add_tail(&_urb->list, &q->head); _urb->queue = q; + /* _urb_unlink needs to know which spinlock to use, thus mb(). */ + _urb->queue = q; mb(); list_add_tail(&_urb->list, &q->head); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags); } static inline void _urb_unlink(struct _urb *_urb) { - struct _urb_queue *q = _urb->queue; + struct _urb_queue *q; unsigned long flags; - if (q) { - spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags); - list_del(&_urb->list); _urb->queue = NULL; - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags); - } + + mb(); + q = _urb->queue; + /* If q is NULL, it will die at easy-to-debug NULL pointer dereference. + No need to BUG(). */ + spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags); + list_del(&_urb->list); _urb->queue = NULL; + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags); } struct hci_usb { |