[3.13.y-ckt stable] Patch "kernel/resource.c: fix muxed resource handling in __request_region()" has been added to the 3.13.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    kernel/resource.c: fix muxed resource handling in __request_region()

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11-ckt36.

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

For more information about the 3.13.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Simon Guinot <simon.guinot at sequanux.org>
Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2015 00:15:18 +0200
Subject: kernel/resource.c: fix muxed resource handling in __request_region()

commit 59ceeaaf355fa0fb16558ef7c24413c804932ada upstream.

In __request_region, if a conflict with a BUSY and MUXED resource is
detected, then the caller goes to sleep and waits for the resource to be
released.  A pointer on the conflicting resource is kept.  At wake-up
this pointer is used as a parent to retry to request the region.

A first problem is that this pointer might well be invalid (if for
example the conflicting resource have already been freed).  Another
problem is that the next call to __request_region() fails to detect a
remaining conflict.  The previously conflicting resource is passed as a
parameter and __request_region() will look for a conflict among the
children of this resource and not at the resource itself.  It is likely
to succeed anyway, even if there is still a conflict.

Instead, the parent of the conflicting resource should be passed to
__request_region().

As a fix, this patch doesn't update the parent resource pointer in the
case we have to wait for a muxed region right after.

Reported-and-tested-by: Vincent Pelletier <plr.vincent at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Simon Guinot <simon.guinot at sequanux.org>
Tested-by: Vincent Donnefort <vdonnefort at gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 kernel/resource.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/resource.c b/kernel/resource.c
index 3f285dc..449282e 100644
--- a/kernel/resource.c
+++ b/kernel/resource.c
@@ -961,9 +961,10 @@ struct resource * __request_region(struct resource *parent,
 		if (!conflict)
 			break;
 		if (conflict != parent) {
-			parent = conflict;
-			if (!(conflict->flags & IORESOURCE_BUSY))
+			if (!(conflict->flags & IORESOURCE_BUSY)) {
+				parent = conflict;
 				continue;
+			}
 		}
 		if (conflict->flags & flags & IORESOURCE_MUXED) {
 			add_wait_queue(&muxed_resource_wait, &wait);
--
2.7.0