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author | Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com> | |
Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:29:03 +0000 (11:29 +0100) | ||
committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | |
Thu, 3 Mar 2016 23:06:53 +0000 (15:06 -0800) |
commit 6736fde9672ff6717ac576e9bba2fd5f3dfec822 upstream.
The code within wait_event_interruptible() is called with
!TASK_RUNNING, so mustn't call any functions that can sleep,
like mutex_lock().
Since we re-check the list_empty() in a loop after the wait,
it's safe to simply use list_empty() without locking.
This bug has existed forever, but was only discovered now
because all userspace implementations, including the default
'rfkill' tool, use poll() or select() to get a readable fd
before attempting to read.
Fixes: c64fb01627e24 ("rfkill: create useful userspace interface")
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The code within wait_event_interruptible() is called with
!TASK_RUNNING, so mustn't call any functions that can sleep,
like mutex_lock().
Since we re-check the list_empty() in a loop after the wait,
it's safe to simply use list_empty() without locking.
This bug has existed forever, but was only discovered now
because all userspace implementations, including the default
'rfkill' tool, use poll() or select() to get a readable fd
before attempting to read.
Fixes: c64fb01627e24 ("rfkill: create useful userspace interface")
Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
net/rfkill/core.c | patch | blob | history |
diff --git a/net/rfkill/core.c b/net/rfkill/core.c
index e23326bbcc4e9a24674c6727d674e75838fb8184..4b9dc24607726cdc4cb2373b29f30161fe5bf1b4 100644 (file)
--- a/net/rfkill/core.c
+++ b/net/rfkill/core.c
return res;
}
-static bool rfkill_readable(struct rfkill_data *data)
-{
- bool r;
-
- mutex_lock(&data->mtx);
- r = !list_empty(&data->events);
- mutex_unlock(&data->mtx);
-
- return r;
-}
-
static ssize_t rfkill_fop_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf,
size_t count, loff_t *pos)
{
goto out;
}
mutex_unlock(&data->mtx);
+ /* since we re-check and it just compares pointers,
+ * using !list_empty() without locking isn't a problem
+ */
ret = wait_event_interruptible(data->read_wait,
- rfkill_readable(data));
+ !list_empty(&data->events));
mutex_lock(&data->mtx);
if (ret)