From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Benedikt Spranger <bene@linutronix.de>,
Stable Team <stable@kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] usb-gadget-ether: Prevent oops caused by error interrupt race
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 16:46:51 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1190299611.3481.34.camel@chaos> (raw)
From: Benedikt Spranger <bene@linutronix.de>
An USB error interrupt (e.g. disconnect) nukes the pending requests for
an ethernet gadget device asynchronously. This can race against
eth_start_xmit(), where we end up dereferencing the list head itself.
The nuke code is serialized against eth_start_xmit via dev->req_lock,
but we need to check the list for empty first instead of unconditionally
accessing dev->tx_reqs.next.
This is a long standing bug, which should be fixed in stable as well.
Signed-off-by: Benedikt Spranger <bene@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/ether.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/ether.c
index 593e235..f1d7c82 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/gadget/ether.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/ether.c
@@ -1989,8 +1989,20 @@ static int eth_start_xmit (struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net)
}
spin_lock_irqsave(&dev->req_lock, flags);
+ /*
+ * dev->tx_reqs may be empty due to an error interrupt which
+ * nuked all requests.
+ */
+ if (list_empty(&dev->tx_reqs)) {
+ netif_stop_queue(net);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->req_lock, flags);
+ return 1;
+ }
+
req = container_of (dev->tx_reqs.next, struct usb_request, list);
list_del (&req->list);
+
+ /* last request in list: stop queue */
if (list_empty (&dev->tx_reqs))
netif_stop_queue (net);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->req_lock, flags);
next reply other threads:[~2007-09-20 14:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-20 14:46 Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2007-09-21 22:08 ` [PATCH] usb-gadget-ether: Prevent oops caused by error interrupt race David Brownell
2007-09-22 17:41 ` [PATCH] usb-gadget-ether: Prevent oops caused by error interrupt race -V2 (comments update) Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-22 19:18 ` David Brownell
2007-09-22 19:30 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-22 20:14 ` David Brownell
2007-09-22 20:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-22 20:53 ` David Brownell
2007-09-22 23:32 ` Thomas Gleixner
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