[ 3.5.y.z extended stable ] Patch "USB: mos7840: fix race in register handling" has been added to staging queue

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Sun Aug 4 09:49:23 UTC 2013


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    USB: mos7840: fix race in register handling

to the linux-3.5.y-queue branch of the 3.5.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.5.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.5.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 86ba8c821443241ce2b3ac39ea381d3c1cd58fae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold <jhovold at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:55:17 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] USB: mos7840: fix race in register handling

commit d8a083cc746664916d9d36ed9e4d08a29525f245 upstream.

Fix race in mos7840_get_reg which unconditionally manipulated the
control urb (which may already be in use) by adding a control-urb busy
flag.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <jhovold at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
[ luis: backported to 3.5: adjusted context ]
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c | 18 ++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c b/drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c
index 297847b..fb0357f 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/mos7840.c
@@ -188,6 +188,10 @@
 #define LED_ON_MS	500
 #define LED_OFF_MS	500

+enum mos7840_flag {
+	MOS7840_FLAG_CTRL_BUSY,
+};
+
 static int device_type;

 static const struct usb_device_id id_table[] = {
@@ -248,6 +252,8 @@ struct moschip_port {
 	bool led_flag;
 	struct timer_list led_timer1;	/* Timer for LED on */
 	struct timer_list led_timer2;	/* Timer for LED off */
+
+	unsigned long flags;
 };

 static bool debug;
@@ -508,11 +514,11 @@ static void mos7840_control_callback(struct urb *urb)
 		/* this urb is terminated, clean up */
 		dbg("%s - urb shutting down with status: %d", __func__,
 		    status);
-		return;
+		goto out;
 	default:
 		dbg("%s - nonzero urb status received: %d", __func__,
 		    status);
-		return;
+		goto out;
 	}

 	dbg("%s urb buffer size is %d", __func__, urb->actual_length);
@@ -525,6 +531,8 @@ static void mos7840_control_callback(struct urb *urb)
 		mos7840_handle_new_msr(mos7840_port, regval);
 	else if (mos7840_port->MsrLsr == 1)
 		mos7840_handle_new_lsr(mos7840_port, regval);
+out:
+	clear_bit_unlock(MOS7840_FLAG_CTRL_BUSY, &mos7840_port->flags);
 }

 static int mos7840_get_reg(struct moschip_port *mcs, __u16 Wval, __u16 reg,
@@ -535,6 +543,9 @@ static int mos7840_get_reg(struct moschip_port *mcs, __u16 Wval, __u16 reg,
 	unsigned char *buffer = mcs->ctrl_buf;
 	int ret;

+	if (test_and_set_bit_lock(MOS7840_FLAG_CTRL_BUSY, &mcs->flags))
+		return -EBUSY;
+
 	dr->bRequestType = MCS_RD_RTYPE;
 	dr->bRequest = MCS_RDREQ;
 	dr->wValue = cpu_to_le16(Wval);	/* 0 */
@@ -546,6 +557,9 @@ static int mos7840_get_reg(struct moschip_port *mcs, __u16 Wval, __u16 reg,
 			     mos7840_control_callback, mcs);
 	mcs->control_urb->transfer_buffer_length = 2;
 	ret = usb_submit_urb(mcs->control_urb, GFP_ATOMIC);
+	if (ret)
+		clear_bit_unlock(MOS7840_FLAG_CTRL_BUSY, &mcs->flags);
+
 	return ret;
 }

--
1.8.3.2





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