From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp-out.google.com (smtp-out.google.com [74.125.121.67]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4E4921007D4 for ; Wed, 9 Nov 2011 08:45:21 +1100 (EST) Subject: [PATCH v3 1/3] virtio_console: Fix locking of vtermno. To: Greg Kroah-Hartman From: Miche Baker-Harvey Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2011 13:44:58 -0800 Message-ID: <20111108214458.28884.86759.stgit@miche.sea.corp.google.com> In-Reply-To: <20111108214452.28884.14840.stgit@miche.sea.corp.google.com> References: <20111108214452.28884.14840.stgit@miche.sea.corp.google.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Cc: Stephen Rothwell , xen-devel@lists.xensource.com, Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk , Rusty Russell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, Anton Blanchard , Amit Shah , Mike Waychison , ppc-dev , Eric Northrup List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Some modifications of vtermno were not done under the spinlock. Moved assignment from vtermno and increment of vtermno together, putting both under the spinlock. Revert vtermno on failure. Signed-off-by: Miche Baker-Harvey --- drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 9 ++++++--- 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c index 8e3c46d..9722e76 100644 --- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c +++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c @@ -987,18 +987,21 @@ int init_port_console(struct port *port) * pointers. The final argument is the output buffer size: we * can do any size, so we put PAGE_SIZE here. */ - port->cons.vtermno = pdrvdata.next_vtermno; + spin_lock_irq(&pdrvdata_lock); + port->cons.vtermno = pdrvdata.next_vtermno++; + spin_unlock_irq(&pdrvdata_lock); port->cons.hvc = hvc_alloc(port->cons.vtermno, 0, &hv_ops, PAGE_SIZE); + spin_lock_irq(&pdrvdata_lock); if (IS_ERR(port->cons.hvc)) { ret = PTR_ERR(port->cons.hvc); dev_err(port->dev, "error %d allocating hvc for port\n", ret); port->cons.hvc = NULL; + port->cons.vtermno = pdrvdata.next_vtermno--; + spin_unlock_irq(&pdrvdata_lock); return ret; } - spin_lock_irq(&pdrvdata_lock); - pdrvdata.next_vtermno++; list_add_tail(&port->cons.list, &pdrvdata.consoles); spin_unlock_irq(&pdrvdata_lock); port->guest_connected = true;