[PATCH 3.14 24/33] regulator: core: fix race condition in regulator_put()

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

3.14-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Ashay Jaiswal <ashayj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 83b0302d347a49f951e904184afe57ac3723476e upstream.

The regulator framework maintains a list of consumer regulators
for a regulator device and protects it from concurrent access using
the regulator device's mutex lock.

In the case of regulator_put() the consumer is removed and regulator
device's parameters are updated without holding the regulator device's
mutex. This would lead to a race condition between the regulator_put()
and any function which traverses the consumer list or modifies regulator
device's parameters.
Fix this race condition by holding the regulator device's mutex in case
of regulator_put.

Signed-off-by: Ashay Jaiswal <ashayj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/regulator/core.c |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/regulator/core.c
+++ b/drivers/regulator/core.c
@@ -1479,7 +1479,7 @@ struct regulator *regulator_get_optional
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(regulator_get_optional);
 
-/* Locks held by regulator_put() */
+/* regulator_list_mutex lock held by regulator_put() */
 static void _regulator_put(struct regulator *regulator)
 {
 	struct regulator_dev *rdev;
@@ -1494,12 +1494,14 @@ static void _regulator_put(struct regula
 	/* remove any sysfs entries */
 	if (regulator->dev)
 		sysfs_remove_link(&rdev->dev.kobj, regulator->supply_name);
+	mutex_lock(&rdev->mutex);
 	kfree(regulator->supply_name);
 	list_del(&regulator->list);
 	kfree(regulator);
 
 	rdev->open_count--;
 	rdev->exclusive = 0;
+	mutex_unlock(&rdev->mutex);
 
 	module_put(rdev->owner);
 }


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