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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Russell King <linux@armlinux.org.uk>,
Adrian Salido <salidoa@google.com>,
Nicolai Stange <nstange@suse.de>,
Sasha Levin <Alexander.Levin@microsoft.com>,
Todd Kjos <tkjos@android.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Subject: [PATCH v2 2/4] ARM: amba: Fix race condition with driver_override
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2018 15:21:44 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1523366506-19832-3-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1523366506-19832-1-git-send-email-geert+renesas@glider.be>
The driver_override implementation is susceptible to a race condition
when different threads are reading vs storing a different driver
override. Add locking to avoid this race condition.
Cfr. commits 6265539776a0810b ("driver core: platform: fix race
condition with driver_override") and 9561475db680f714 ("PCI: Fix race
condition with driver_override").
Fixes: 3cf385713460eb2b ("ARM: 8256/1: driver coamba: add device binding path 'driver_override'")
Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
---
drivers/amba/bus.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/amba/bus.c b/drivers/amba/bus.c
index 6ffd778352e6d953..36c5653ced5742b7 100644
--- a/drivers/amba/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/amba/bus.c
@@ -69,8 +69,12 @@ static ssize_t driver_override_show(struct device *_dev,
struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
struct amba_device *dev = to_amba_device(_dev);
+ ssize_t len;
- return sprintf(buf, "%s\n", dev->driver_override);
+ device_lock(_dev);
+ len = sprintf(buf, "%s\n", dev->driver_override);
+ device_unlock(_dev);
+ return len;
}
static ssize_t driver_override_store(struct device *_dev,
@@ -78,7 +82,7 @@ static ssize_t driver_override_store(struct device *_dev,
const char *buf, size_t count)
{
struct amba_device *dev = to_amba_device(_dev);
- char *driver_override, *old = dev->driver_override, *cp;
+ char *driver_override, *old, *cp;
if (count > PATH_MAX)
return -EINVAL;
@@ -91,12 +95,15 @@ static ssize_t driver_override_store(struct device *_dev,
if (cp)
*cp = '\0';
+ device_lock(_dev);
+ old = dev->driver_override;
if (strlen(driver_override)) {
dev->driver_override = driver_override;
} else {
kfree(driver_override);
dev->driver_override = NULL;
}
+ device_unlock(_dev);
kfree(old);
--
2.7.4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-10 13:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-10 13:21 [PATCH v2 0/4] ARM: amba: driver_override improvements and fixes Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-04-10 13:21 ` [PATCH v2 1/4] ARM: amba: Make driver_override output consistent with other buses Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-04-25 15:53 ` Todd Kjos
2018-04-10 13:21 ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2018-04-25 15:56 ` [PATCH v2 2/4] ARM: amba: Fix race condition with driver_override Todd Kjos
2018-04-25 16:06 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-25 17:53 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-04-26 7:04 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-26 7:40 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-04-26 8:35 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-26 8:45 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-05-09 10:39 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-05-09 13:32 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-05-09 14:50 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-10 13:21 ` [PATCH v2 3/4] ARM: amba: Don't read past the end of sysfs "driver_override" buffer Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-04-25 15:56 ` Todd Kjos
2018-04-10 13:21 ` [PATCH v2 4/4] ARM: amba: Fix wrong indentation in driver_override_store() Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-04-25 15:58 ` Todd Kjos
2018-04-10 22:19 ` [PATCH v2 0/4] ARM: amba: driver_override improvements and fixes Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-04-25 16:08 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2018-04-25 17:27 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
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