This patch fixes races caused by unprotected ACPI IPMI transfers. We can see the following crashes may occur: 1. There is no tx_msg_lock held for iterating tx_msg_list in ipmi_flush_tx_msg() while it is parellel unlinked on failure in acpi_ipmi_space_handler() under protection of tx_msg_lock. 2. There is no lock held for freeing tx_msg in acpi_ipmi_space_handler() while it is parellel accessed in ipmi_flush_tx_msg() and ipmi_msg_handler(). This patch enhances tx_msg_lock to protect all tx_msg accesses to solve this issue. Then tx_msg_lock is always held around complete() and tx_msg accesses. Calling smp_wmb() before setting msg_done flag so that messages completed due to flushing will not be handled as 'done' messages while their contents are not vaild. Signed-off-by: Lv Zheng <lv.zheng@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Zhao Yakui <yakui.zhao@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/acpi/acpi_ipmi.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/acpi/acpi_ipmi.c b/drivers/acpi/acpi_ipmi.c index b37c189..527ee43 100644 --- a/drivers/acpi/acpi_ipmi.c +++ b/drivers/acpi/acpi_ipmi.c @@ -230,11 +230,14 @@ static void ipmi_flush_tx_msg(struct acpi_ipmi_device *ipmi) struct acpi_ipmi_msg *tx_msg, *temp; int count = HZ / 10; struct pnp_dev *pnp_dev = ipmi->pnp_dev; + unsigned long flags; + spin_lock_irqsave(&ipmi->tx_msg_lock, flags); list_for_each_entry_safe(tx_msg, temp, &ipmi->tx_msg_list, head) { /* wake up the sleep thread on the Tx msg */ complete(&tx_msg->tx_complete); } + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ipmi->tx_msg_lock, flags); /* wait for about 100ms to flush the tx message list */ while (count--) { @@ -268,13 +271,12 @@ static void ipmi_msg_handler(struct ipmi_recv_msg *msg, void *user_msg_data) break; } } - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ipmi_device->tx_msg_lock, flags); if (!msg_found) { dev_warn(&pnp_dev->dev, "Unexpected response (msg id %ld) is returned.\n", msg->msgid); - goto out_msg; + goto out_lock; } /* copy the response data to Rx_data buffer */ @@ -286,10 +288,14 @@ static void ipmi_msg_handler(struct ipmi_recv_msg *msg, void *user_msg_data) } tx_msg->rx_len = msg->msg.data_len; memcpy(tx_msg->data, msg->msg.data, tx_msg->rx_len); + /* tx_msg content must be valid before setting msg_done flag */ + smp_wmb(); tx_msg->msg_done = 1; out_comp: complete(&tx_msg->tx_complete); +out_lock: + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&ipmi_device->tx_msg_lock, flags); out_msg: ipmi_free_recv_msg(msg); } -- 1.7.10 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html