USB: fix thread-unsafe anchor utiliy routines

This patch fixes a race condition in two utility routines
related to the removal/unlinking of urbs from an anchor.

If two threads are concurrently accessing the same anchor,
both could end up with the same urb - thinking they are
the exclusive owner.

Alan Stern pointed out a related issue in
usb_unlink_anchored_urbs:

"The URB isn't removed from the anchor until it completes
 (as a by-product of completion, in fact), which might not
 be for quite some time after the unlink call returns.
 In the meantime, the subroutine will keep trying to unlink
 it, over and over again."

Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Christian Lamparter <chunkeey@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 21 insertions, 29 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
index 7c05555..419e6b3 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/urb.c
@@ -137,6 +137,16 @@ void usb_anchor_urb(struct urb *urb, struct usb_anchor *anchor)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_anchor_urb);
 
+/* Callers must hold anchor->lock */
+static void __usb_unanchor_urb(struct urb *urb, struct usb_anchor *anchor)
+{
+	urb->anchor = NULL;
+	list_del(&urb->anchor_list);
+	usb_put_urb(urb);
+	if (list_empty(&anchor->urb_list))
+		wake_up(&anchor->wait);
+}
+
 /**
  * usb_unanchor_urb - unanchors an URB
  * @urb: pointer to the urb to anchor
@@ -156,17 +166,14 @@ void usb_unanchor_urb(struct urb *urb)
 		return;
 
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&anchor->lock, flags);
-	if (unlikely(anchor != urb->anchor)) {
-		/* we've lost the race to another thread */
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&anchor->lock, flags);
-		return;
-	}
-	urb->anchor = NULL;
-	list_del(&urb->anchor_list);
+	/*
+	 * At this point, we could be competing with another thread which
+	 * has the same intention. To protect the urb from being unanchored
+	 * twice, only the winner of the race gets the job.
+	 */
+	if (likely(anchor == urb->anchor))
+		__usb_unanchor_urb(urb, anchor);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&anchor->lock, flags);
-	usb_put_urb(urb);
-	if (list_empty(&anchor->urb_list))
-		wake_up(&anchor->wait);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_unanchor_urb);
 
@@ -749,20 +756,11 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_unpoison_anchored_urbs);
 void usb_unlink_anchored_urbs(struct usb_anchor *anchor)
 {
 	struct urb *victim;
-	unsigned long flags;
 
-	spin_lock_irqsave(&anchor->lock, flags);
-	while (!list_empty(&anchor->urb_list)) {
-		victim = list_entry(anchor->urb_list.prev, struct urb,
-				    anchor_list);
-		usb_get_urb(victim);
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&anchor->lock, flags);
-		/* this will unanchor the URB */
+	while ((victim = usb_get_from_anchor(anchor)) != NULL) {
 		usb_unlink_urb(victim);
 		usb_put_urb(victim);
-		spin_lock_irqsave(&anchor->lock, flags);
 	}
-	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&anchor->lock, flags);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_unlink_anchored_urbs);
 
@@ -799,12 +797,11 @@ struct urb *usb_get_from_anchor(struct usb_anchor *anchor)
 		victim = list_entry(anchor->urb_list.next, struct urb,
 				    anchor_list);
 		usb_get_urb(victim);
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&anchor->lock, flags);
-		usb_unanchor_urb(victim);
+		__usb_unanchor_urb(victim, anchor);
 	} else {
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&anchor->lock, flags);
 		victim = NULL;
 	}
+	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&anchor->lock, flags);
 
 	return victim;
 }
@@ -826,12 +823,7 @@ void usb_scuttle_anchored_urbs(struct usb_anchor *anchor)
 	while (!list_empty(&anchor->urb_list)) {
 		victim = list_entry(anchor->urb_list.prev, struct urb,
 				    anchor_list);
-		usb_get_urb(victim);
-		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&anchor->lock, flags);
-		/* this may free the URB */
-		usb_unanchor_urb(victim);
-		usb_put_urb(victim);
-		spin_lock_irqsave(&anchor->lock, flags);
+		__usb_unanchor_urb(victim, anchor);
 	}
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&anchor->lock, flags);
 }