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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org
Subject: BAD PATCH: USB: remove use of the bus rwsem, as it doesn't really protect anything.
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 22:49:32 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070427224932.34a03e2e@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200704272059.l3RKxNPS023912@hera.kernel.org>
Unless there is something I'm missing most of these patches seem totally
unsafe.
> --- a/drivers/usb/core/devices.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/core/devices.c
> @@ -246,7 +246,6 @@ static char *usb_dump_interface_descriptor(char *start, char *end,
>
> if (start > end)
> return start;
> - down_read(&usb_bus_type.subsys.rwsem);
> if (iface) {
> driver_name = (iface->dev.driver
> ? iface->dev.driver->name
iface->dev.driver can now become NULL during the evaluation above
> @@ -444,8 +441,6 @@ static int releaseintf(struct dev_state *ps, unsigned int ifnum)
> if (ifnum >= 8*sizeof(ps->ifclaimed))
> return err;
> dev = ps->dev;
> - /* lock against other changes to driver bindings */
> - down_write(&usb_bus_type.subsys.rwsem);
> intf = usb_ifnum_to_if(dev, ifnum);
> if (!intf)
> err = -ENOENT;
> @@ -453,7 +448,6 @@ static int releaseintf(struct dev_state *ps, unsigned int ifnum)
> usb_driver_release_interface(&usbfs_driver, intf);
Which takes iface->dev.driver to NULL
> err = 0;
> }
> - up_write(&usb_bus_type.subsys.rwsem);
> return err;
> }
>
> @@ -813,7 +807,6 @@ static int proc_getdriver(struct dev_state *ps, void __user *arg)
>
> if (copy_from_user(&gd, arg, sizeof(gd)))
> return -EFAULT;
> - down_read(&usb_bus_type.subsys.rwsem);
> intf = usb_ifnum_to_if(ps->dev, gd.interface);
> if (!intf || !intf->dev.driver)
> ret = -ENODATA;
Ditto ...
next parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-27 21:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200704272059.l3RKxNPS023912@hera.kernel.org>
2007-04-27 21:49 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2007-05-02 16:26 ` Greg KH
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