[PATCH 3/3] tty-ldisc: be more careful in 'put_ldisc' locking

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Tue Aug 04 2009 - 17:10:41 EST


From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Use 'atomic_dec_and_lock()' to make sure that we always hold the
tty_ldisc_lock when the ldisc count goes to zero. That way we can never
race against 'tty_ldisc_try()' increasing the count again.

Reported-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>
---
drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c b/drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c
index be55dfc..1733d34 100644
--- a/drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c
+++ b/drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c
@@ -55,25 +55,32 @@ static inline struct tty_ldisc *get_ldisc(struct tty_ldisc *ld)
return ld;
}

-static inline void put_ldisc(struct tty_ldisc *ld)
+static void put_ldisc(struct tty_ldisc *ld)
{
+ unsigned long flags;
+
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!ld))
return;

/*
* If this is the last user, free the ldisc, and
* release the ldisc ops.
+ *
+ * We really want an "atomic_dec_and_lock_irqsave()",
+ * but we don't have it, so this does it by hand.
*/
- if (atomic_dec_and_test(&ld->users)) {
- unsigned long flags;
+ local_irq_save(flags);
+ if (atomic_dec_and_lock(&ld->users, &tty_ldisc_lock)) {
struct tty_ldisc_ops *ldo = ld->ops;

- kfree(ld);
- spin_lock_irqsave(&tty_ldisc_lock, flags);
ldo->refcount--;
module_put(ldo->owner);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty_ldisc_lock, flags);
+
+ kfree(ld);
+ return;
}
+ local_irq_restore(flags);
}

/**
--
1.6.3.2

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