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* [PATCH] s2255: Do not free fw_data until timer handler has actually stopped using it
@ 2014-04-17 20:47 Kirill Tkhai
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From: Kirill Tkhai @ 2014-04-17 20:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-media; +Cc: tkhai, sakari.ailus, linux-dev, hans.verkuil, m.chehab

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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