From: Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com>
To: madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com
Cc: jamie@jamieiles.com, herbert@gondor.apana.org.au,
davem@davemloft.net, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
andrianov@ispras.ru, ldv-project@linuxtesting.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: crypto: picoxcell_crypto: Fix potential race condition bug
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 12:33:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200813113304.GA11888@willow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200811123024.14501-1-madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 06:00:24PM +0530, madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com>
>
> engine->stat_irq_thresh was initialized after device_create_file() in
> the probe function, the initialization may race with call to
> spacc_stat_irq_thresh_store() which updates engine->stat_irq_thresh,
> therefore initialize it before creating the file in probe function.
>
> Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
>
> Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com>
Thanks!
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From: Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com>
To: madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com
Cc: ldv-project@linuxtesting.org, andrianov@ispras.ru,
herbert@gondor.apana.org.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-crypto@vger.kernel.org, jamie@jamieiles.com,
davem@davemloft.net, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: crypto: picoxcell_crypto: Fix potential race condition bug
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2020 12:33:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200813113304.GA11888@willow> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200811123024.14501-1-madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com>
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 06:00:24PM +0530, madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com>
>
> engine->stat_irq_thresh was initialized after device_create_file() in
> the probe function, the initialization may race with call to
> spacc_stat_irq_thresh_store() which updates engine->stat_irq_thresh,
> therefore initialize it before creating the file in probe function.
>
> Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).
>
> Signed-off-by: Madhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Jamie Iles <jamie@jamieiles.com>
Thanks!
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-08-13 11:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-11 12:30 [PATCH] drivers: crypto: picoxcell_crypto: Fix potential race condition bug madhuparnabhowmik10
2020-08-11 12:30 ` madhuparnabhowmik10
2020-08-13 11:33 ` Jamie Iles [this message]
2020-08-13 11:33 ` Jamie Iles
2020-08-21 7:58 ` Herbert Xu
2020-08-21 7:58 ` Herbert Xu
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