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| author | Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> | 2013-07-29 14:17:13 +0930 |
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| committer | Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> | 2013-07-29 14:43:55 +0930 |
| commit | 671bdea2b9f210566610603ecbb6584c8a201c8c (patch) | |
| tree | 9fcd2e27784b670fd474487eb3c2707ba88ec804 /drivers/char | |
| parent | 057b82be3ca3d066478e43b162fc082930a746c9 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-671bdea2b9f210566610603ecbb6584c8a201c8c.tar.gz lwn-671bdea2b9f210566610603ecbb6584c8a201c8c.zip | |
virtio: console: fix race in port_fops_open() and port unplug
Between open() being called and processed, the port can be unplugged.
Check if this happened, and bail out.
A simple test script to reproduce this is:
while true; do for i in $(seq 1 100); do echo $i > /dev/vport0p3; done; done;
This opens and closes the port a lot of times; unplugging the port while
this is happening triggers the bug.
CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c index 3beea9d478bc..ffa7e46faff9 100644 --- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c +++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c @@ -1041,6 +1041,10 @@ static int port_fops_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp) /* We get the port with a kref here */ port = find_port_by_devt(cdev->dev); + if (!port) { + /* Port was unplugged before we could proceed */ + return -ENXIO; + } filp->private_data = port; /* |