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From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
To: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
Cc: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: double unlock in rng_dev_read()
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2009 12:51:02 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091224105102.GE23721@bicker> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091223152355.GA31379@gondor.apana.org.au>

On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 11:23:55PM +0800, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 04:53:36PM +0200, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> >
> > No no.  I mean when size hits zero we are rng_mutex is unlocked.
> 
> Good catch! I'll add this patch to the tree.  Please take a look
> at it.  Thanks!
> 

Great.

Acked-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>

regards,
dan carpenter


> commit f5908267b67917b8cbd98b27fd2be9b5f62ec76f
> Author: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Date:   Wed Dec 23 23:22:34 2009 +0800
> 
>     hwrng: core - Fix double unlock in rng_dev_read
>     
>     When the loop terminates with size == 0 in rng_dev_read we will
>     unlock the rng mutex twice.
>     
>     Reported-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
>     Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
> index e989f67..3d9c61e 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
> +++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
> @@ -158,10 +158,11 @@ static ssize_t rng_dev_read(struct file *filp, char __user *buf,
>  			goto out;
>  		}
>  	}
> -out_unlock:
> -	mutex_unlock(&rng_mutex);
>  out:
>  	return ret ? : err;
> +out_unlock:
> +	mutex_unlock(&rng_mutex);
> +	goto out;
>  }
>  
> -- 
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> Email: Herbert Xu ~{PmV>HI~} <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/
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      reply	other threads:[~2009-12-24 10:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-23 13:15 double unlock in rng_dev_read() Dan Carpenter
2009-12-23 14:36 ` Herbert Xu
2009-12-23 14:53   ` Dan Carpenter
2009-12-23 15:23     ` Herbert Xu
2009-12-24 10:51       ` Dan Carpenter [this message]

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