From: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Cc: tkhai@yandex.ru, sakari.ailus@iki.fi, linux-dev@sensoray.com,
hans.verkuil@cisco.com, m.chehab@samsung.com
Subject: [PATCH] s2255: Do not free fw_data until timer handler has actually stopped using it
Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2014 00:47:04 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140417204704.30337.46941.stgit@localhost> (raw)
Function del_timer() does not guarantee that timer was really deleted.
If the timer handler is beeing executed at the moment, the function
does nothing. So, we have a race between del_timer() and kfree(), and
it's possible to use already freed memory in the handler.
This is compile-tested only. Please, consider applying or something like it.
[Should CC stable@ ?]
Signed-off-by: Kirill Tkhai <tkhai@yandex.ru>
---
drivers/media/usb/s2255/s2255drv.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/media/usb/s2255/s2255drv.c b/drivers/media/usb/s2255/s2255drv.c
index 1d4ba2b..503fd65 100644
--- a/drivers/media/usb/s2255/s2255drv.c
+++ b/drivers/media/usb/s2255/s2255drv.c
@@ -1522,7 +1522,7 @@ static void s2255_destroy(struct s2255_dev *dev)
/* board shutdown stops the read pipe if it is running */
s2255_board_shutdown(dev);
/* make sure firmware still not trying to load */
- del_timer(&dev->timer); /* only started in .probe and .open */
+ del_timer_sync(&dev->timer); /* only started in .probe and .open */
if (dev->fw_data->fw_urb) {
usb_kill_urb(dev->fw_data->fw_urb);
usb_free_urb(dev->fw_data->fw_urb);
@@ -2352,7 +2352,7 @@ errorREQFW:
errorFWDATA2:
usb_free_urb(dev->fw_data->fw_urb);
errorFWURB:
- del_timer(&dev->timer);
+ del_timer_sync(&dev->timer);
errorEP:
usb_put_dev(dev->udev);
errorUDEV:
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