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authorMaxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr>2013-08-29 20:28:13 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2013-08-30 12:04:27 -0700
commit1eeeef153c02f5856ec109fa532eb5f31c39f85c (patch)
tree4ba21b5842f9a986ac85105c2787c50d2a8dae09 /drivers/base
parent7315f0ccfc283ae998ca4d8102de83bba21936fa (diff)
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firmware loader: fix pending_fw_head list corruption
Got the following oops just before reboot: Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at virtual address 00000000 [<8028d300>] (__list_del_entry+0x44/0xac) [<802e3320>] (__fw_load_abort.part.13+0x1c/0x50) [<802e337c>] (fw_shutdown_notify+0x28/0x50) [<80034f80>] (notifier_call_chain.isra.1+0x5c/0x9c) [<800350ec>] (__blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x44/0x58) [<80035114>] (blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x14/0x18) [<80035d64>] (kernel_restart_prepare+0x14/0x38) [<80035d94>] (kernel_restart+0xc/0x50) The following race condition triggers here: _request_firmware_load() device_create_file(...) kobject_uevent(...) (schedule) (resume) firmware_loading_store(1) firmware_loading_store(0) list_del_init(&buf->pending_list) (schedule) (resume) list_add(&buf->pending_list, &pending_fw_head); wait_for_completion(&buf->completion); causing an oops later when walking pending_list after the firmware has been released. The proposed fix is to move the list_add() before sysfs attribute creation. Signed-off-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr> Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/base')
-rw-r--r--drivers/base/firmware_class.c11
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
index e4107d5..10a4467 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -865,8 +865,15 @@ static int _request_firmware_load(struct firmware_priv *fw_priv, bool uevent,
goto err_del_dev;
}
+ mutex_lock(&fw_lock);
+ list_add(&buf->pending_list, &pending_fw_head);
+ mutex_unlock(&fw_lock);
+
retval = device_create_file(f_dev, &dev_attr_loading);
if (retval) {
+ mutex_lock(&fw_lock);
+ list_del_init(&buf->pending_list);
+ mutex_unlock(&fw_lock);
dev_err(f_dev, "%s: device_create_file failed\n", __func__);
goto err_del_bin_attr;
}
@@ -881,10 +888,6 @@ static int _request_firmware_load(struct firmware_priv *fw_priv, bool uevent,
kobject_uevent(&fw_priv->dev.kobj, KOBJ_ADD);
}
- mutex_lock(&fw_lock);
- list_add(&buf->pending_list, &pending_fw_head);
- mutex_unlock(&fw_lock);
-
wait_for_completion(&buf->completion);
cancel_delayed_work_sync(&fw_priv->timeout_work);
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