tty-ldisc: be more careful in 'put_ldisc' locking
authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 3 Aug 2009 21:54:56 +0000 (14:54 -0700)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Tue, 4 Aug 2009 20:46:30 +0000 (13:46 -0700)
Use 'atomic_dec_and_lock()' to make sure that we always hold the
tty_ldisc_lock when the ldisc count goes to zero. That way we can never
race against 'tty_ldisc_try()' increasing the count again.

Reported-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@mail.by>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c

index be55dfcf59ac68d496fb54cdd9769601455af304..1733d3439ad2fd31e2cac8d083c5de499c4a685d 100644 (file)
@@ -55,25 +55,32 @@ static inline struct tty_ldisc *get_ldisc(struct tty_ldisc *ld)
        return ld;
 }
 
-static inline void put_ldisc(struct tty_ldisc *ld)
+static void put_ldisc(struct tty_ldisc *ld)
 {
+       unsigned long flags;
+
        if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!ld))
                return;
 
        /*
         * If this is the last user, free the ldisc, and
         * release the ldisc ops.
+        *
+        * We really want an "atomic_dec_and_lock_irqsave()",
+        * but we don't have it, so this does it by hand.
         */
-       if (atomic_dec_and_test(&ld->users)) {
-               unsigned long flags;
+       local_irq_save(flags);
+       if (atomic_dec_and_lock(&ld->users, &tty_ldisc_lock)) {
                struct tty_ldisc_ops *ldo = ld->ops;
 
-               kfree(ld);
-               spin_lock_irqsave(&tty_ldisc_lock, flags);
                ldo->refcount--;
                module_put(ldo->owner);
                spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty_ldisc_lock, flags);
+
+               kfree(ld);
+               return;
        }
+       local_irq_restore(flags);
 }
 
 /**