[34-longterm 114/179] hwmon: (max1111) Fix race condition causing NULL pointer exception

From: Paul Gortmaker
Date: Mon May 14 2012 - 22:45:33 EST


From: Pavel Herrmann <morpheus.ibis@xxxxxxxxx>

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This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git
If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
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commit d3f684f2820a7f42acef68bea6622d9032127fb2 upstream.

spi_sync call uses its spi_message parameter to keep completion information,
using a drvdata structure is not thread-safe. Use a mutex to prevent
multiple access to shared driver data.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Herrmann <morpheus.ibis@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx>
Acked-by: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@xxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Cyril Hrubis <metan@xxxxxx>
Tested-by: Stanislav Brabec <utx@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hwmon/max1111.c | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/max1111.c b/drivers/hwmon/max1111.c
index 12a54aa..14335bb 100644
--- a/drivers/hwmon/max1111.c
+++ b/drivers/hwmon/max1111.c
@@ -40,6 +40,8 @@ struct max1111_data {
struct spi_transfer xfer[2];
uint8_t *tx_buf;
uint8_t *rx_buf;
+ struct mutex drvdata_lock;
+ /* protect msg, xfer and buffers from multiple access */
};

static int max1111_read(struct device *dev, int channel)
@@ -48,6 +50,9 @@ static int max1111_read(struct device *dev, int channel)
uint8_t v1, v2;
int err;

+ /* writing to drvdata struct is not thread safe, wait on mutex */
+ mutex_lock(&data->drvdata_lock);
+
data->tx_buf[0] = (channel << MAX1111_CTRL_SEL_SH) |
MAX1111_CTRL_PD0 | MAX1111_CTRL_PD1 |
MAX1111_CTRL_SGL | MAX1111_CTRL_UNI | MAX1111_CTRL_STR;
@@ -55,12 +60,15 @@ static int max1111_read(struct device *dev, int channel)
err = spi_sync(data->spi, &data->msg);
if (err < 0) {
dev_err(dev, "spi_sync failed with %d\n", err);
+ mutex_unlock(&data->drvdata_lock);
return err;
}

v1 = data->rx_buf[0];
v2 = data->rx_buf[1];

+ mutex_unlock(&data->drvdata_lock);
+
if ((v1 & 0xc0) || (v2 & 0x3f))
return -EINVAL;

@@ -176,6 +184,8 @@ static int __devinit max1111_probe(struct spi_device *spi)
if (err)
goto err_free_data;

+ mutex_init(&data->drvdata_lock);
+
data->spi = spi;
spi_set_drvdata(spi, data);

@@ -213,6 +223,7 @@ static int __devexit max1111_remove(struct spi_device *spi)

hwmon_device_unregister(data->hwmon_dev);
sysfs_remove_group(&spi->dev.kobj, &max1111_attr_group);
+ mutex_destroy(&data->drvdata_lock);
kfree(data->rx_buf);
kfree(data->tx_buf);
kfree(data);
--
1.7.9.6

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