From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Kamal Mostafa To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Thomas Pugliese , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Kamal Mostafa Subject: [PATCH 3.13 043/163] uwb: init beacon cache entry before registering uwb device Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2014 14:01:08 -0700 Message-Id: <1412888588-26755-44-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> In-Reply-To: <1412888588-26755-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> References: <1412888588-26755-1-git-send-email-kamal@canonical.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.13.11.9 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Thomas Pugliese commit 675f0ab2fe5a0f7325208e60b617a5f32b86d72c upstream. Make sure the uwb_dev->bce entry is set before calling uwb_dev_add in uwbd_dev_onair so that usermode will only see the device after it is properly initialized. This fixes a kernel panic that can occur if usermode tries to access the IEs sysfs attribute of a UWB device before the driver has had a chance to set the beacon cache entry. Signed-off-by: Thomas Pugliese Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa --- drivers/uwb/lc-dev.c | 13 +++++++++---- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/uwb/lc-dev.c b/drivers/uwb/lc-dev.c index 80079b8..d0303f0 100644 --- a/drivers/uwb/lc-dev.c +++ b/drivers/uwb/lc-dev.c @@ -431,16 +431,19 @@ void uwbd_dev_onair(struct uwb_rc *rc, struct uwb_beca_e *bce) uwb_dev->mac_addr = *bce->mac_addr; uwb_dev->dev_addr = bce->dev_addr; dev_set_name(&uwb_dev->dev, "%s", macbuf); + + /* plug the beacon cache */ + bce->uwb_dev = uwb_dev; + uwb_dev->bce = bce; + uwb_bce_get(bce); /* released in uwb_dev_sys_release() */ + result = uwb_dev_add(uwb_dev, &rc->uwb_dev.dev, rc); if (result < 0) { dev_err(dev, "new device %s: cannot instantiate device\n", macbuf); goto error_dev_add; } - /* plug the beacon cache */ - bce->uwb_dev = uwb_dev; - uwb_dev->bce = bce; - uwb_bce_get(bce); /* released in uwb_dev_sys_release() */ + dev_info(dev, "uwb device (mac %s dev %s) connected to %s %s\n", macbuf, devbuf, rc->uwb_dev.dev.parent->bus->name, dev_name(rc->uwb_dev.dev.parent)); @@ -448,6 +451,8 @@ void uwbd_dev_onair(struct uwb_rc *rc, struct uwb_beca_e *bce) return; error_dev_add: + bce->uwb_dev = NULL; + uwb_bce_put(bce); kfree(uwb_dev); return; } -- 1.9.1