[PATCH 1/1] async: initialise list heads to fix crash

From: James Hogan
Date: Fri Jan 25 2013 - 05:14:30 EST


The commit "async: replace list of active domains with global list of
pending items" added a struct list_head global_list in struct
async_entry, which isn't initialised. This means that if
!domain->registered at __async_schedule(), then list_del_init() will be
called on the list head in async_run_entry_fn with both pointers NULL,
causing a crash. This is fixed by initialising both the global_list and
domain_list list_heads after kzalloc'ing the entry.

This was noticed due to dapm_power_widgets() which uses
ASYNC_DOMAIN_EXCLUSIVE, which initialises the domain->registered to 0.

Signed-off-by: James Hogan <james.hogan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
kernel/async.c | 2 ++
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/async.c b/kernel/async.c
index 6958000..8ddee2c 100644
--- a/kernel/async.c
+++ b/kernel/async.c
@@ -172,6 +172,8 @@ static async_cookie_t __async_schedule(async_func_ptr *ptr, void *data, struct a
ptr(data, newcookie);
return newcookie;
}
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&entry->domain_list);
+ INIT_LIST_HEAD(&entry->global_list);
INIT_WORK(&entry->work, async_run_entry_fn);
entry->func = ptr;
entry->data = data;
--
1.7.7.6


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