regulator: core: fix race condition in regulator_put()
authorAshay Jaiswal <ashayj@codeaurora.org>
Thu, 8 Jan 2015 13:24:25 +0000 (18:54 +0530)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 6 Feb 2015 06:35:37 +0000 (22:35 -0800)
commitf256de7d38a3a5ca68ab105cf8794fe2ec21e83a
tree27222d8168b3fa484b56fa5bc69d02619bee2051
parentba455124c34d113bf781bfb2c1416d33cb1f26ce
regulator: core: fix race condition in regulator_put()

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@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/regulator/core.c