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From: Eugene Shatokhin <eugene.shatokhin@rosalab.ru>
To: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@osg.samsung.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: uvcvideo: Race on dev->state between uvc_disconnect() and uvc_v4l2_open()
Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 17:48:41 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <555C9EC9.40303@rosalab.ru> (raw)

Hi,

There is a race in uvcvideo module between uvc_disconnect() and 
uvc_v4l2_open() on dev->state. Checked and reproduced that with kernel 
4.1-rc1.

drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_driver.c, uvc_disconnect():

	dev->state |= UVC_DEV_DISCONNECTED;

drivers/media/usb/uvc/uvc_v4l2.c, uvc_v4l2_open():

	if (stream->dev->state & UVC_DEV_DISCONNECTED)
		return -ENODEV;

I checked that the race does happen by introducing a delay in 
uvc_disconnect() right before that assignment and armed a hardware 
breakpoint to detect the access to stream->dev->state from 
uvc_v4l2_open(). When I disconnected the webcam while Google Hangout was 
running, the hardware breakpoint triggered several times for that read 
in uvc_v4l2_open (uvc_v4l2.c:484). uvc_v4l2_open() was called in the 
context of GoogleTalkPlugin processes.

Not sure if the race is intentional but I guess, better to report it 
anyway. Nothing has crashed during my (brief) testing yet, but still.

Regards,

Eugene

-- 
Eugene Shatokhin, ROSA
www.rosalab.com

             reply	other threads:[~2015-05-20 14:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-20 14:48 Eugene Shatokhin [this message]
2015-05-24 22:32 ` uvcvideo: Race on dev->state between uvc_disconnect() and uvc_v4l2_open() Laurent Pinchart
2015-05-25  6:31   ` Eugene Shatokhin

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