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From: Pavel Andrianov <andrianov@ispras.ru>
To: Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>
Cc: libertas-dev@lists.infradead.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	vaishali.thakkar@oracle.com, LDV list <ldv-project@ispras.ru>
Subject: [ldv-project] [net] libertas: potential race condition
Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2016 13:30:12 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <57569424.9040906@ispras.ru> (raw)

Hi!

There is a potential race condition in 
drivers/net/wireless/libertas/libertas.ko.
In the function lbs_hard_start_xmit(..), line 159, a socket buffer is 
written to priv->current_skb with a spin_lock protection.
In the function lbs_mac_event_disconnected(..), lines 50-51, the field 
current_skb is cleaned. There is no protection used. The corresponding 
handlers are activated at the same time in lbs_start_card(..) and then 
may be executed simultaneously. Note, there are two structures 
lbs_netdev_ops and mesh_netdev_ops, which have the target handler 
lbs_hard_start_xmit.
Is it a real race or I have missed something?

-- 
Pavel Andrianov
Linux Verification Center, ISPRAS
web: http://linuxtesting.org
e-mail: andrianov@ispras.ru


             reply	other threads:[~2016-06-07 10:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-06-07  9:30 Pavel Andrianov [this message]
2016-06-07 14:39 ` [ldv-project] [net] libertas: potential race condition Dan Williams
2016-06-07 14:54   ` Pavel Andrianov
2016-06-07 14:54     ` Pavel Andrianov
2016-06-07 22:51   ` James Cameron
2016-06-14 13:16     ` Pavel Andrianov
2016-06-15  0:46       ` James Cameron

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