From: iceberg <strakh@ispras.ru>
To: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>,
Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>,
Linux Kernlel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [BUG] ati_remote2.c: possible mutex_lock without mutex_unlock
Date: Tue, 13 Oct 2009 17:52:07 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1255456327.22233.0@pamir> (raw)
KERNEL_VERSION: 2.6.31
DESCRIBE:
In driver ./drivers/input/input.c possible call to mutex_lock
from function input_devices_seq_start without mutex_unlock.
After calling input_devices_seq_start we can't know whether
mutex was locked or not.
Case 1. If mutex_lock_interruptible was not
locked due to interrupt then input_devices_seq_start returns NULL.
Case 2. If mutex was successfuly locked but seq_list_start returned
NULL then input_devices_seq_start returns NULL too.
The last case occurs if seq_list_start is called with pos>size of
input_dev_list or pos<0.
Hence, after calling input_devices_seq_start we can not simply check
that result is not NULL and call input_devices_seq_stop function
which unlocks the mutex. Because in case 2 the mutex will stay locked.
void * ret = input_devices_seq_start(...);
if(ret!=NULL) {
//mutex is acquired for sure
input_devices_seq_stop(...);//unlocks the mutex
} else {
//mutex may be acquired or not
}
783 static void *input_devices_seq_start(struct seq_file *seq, loff_t
*pos)
784{
785 if (mutex_lock_interruptible(&input_mutex))
786 return NULL;
787
788 return seq_list_start(&input_dev_list, *pos);
789}
663struct list_head *seq_list_start(struct list_head *head, loff_t
pos)
664{
665 struct list_head *lh;
666
667 list_for_each(lh, head)
668 if (pos-- == 0)
669 return lh;
670
671 return NULL;
672}
673
674EXPORT_SYMBOL(seq_list_start);
675
Found by: Linux Driver Verification project
next reply other threads:[~2009-10-13 13:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-10-13 17:52 iceberg [this message]
2009-10-13 15:43 ` [BUG] ati_remote2.c: possible mutex_lock without mutex_unlock Jiri Kosina
2009-10-14 6:29 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-10-14 7:11 ` Jiri Kosina
2009-10-14 7:14 ` Dmitry Torokhov
2009-10-14 7:16 ` Jiri Kosina
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