This patch fix a possible race bug in drivers/usb/serial/generic with
the new kfifo API.
Please apply it to the 2.6.33-rc* tree.
Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
generic.c | 8 ++++----
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
--- linux-2.6.33-rc2.orig/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c 2009-12-27 23:37:03.566060210 +0100
+++ linux-2.6.33-rc2.new/drivers/usb/serial/generic.c 2010-01-04 20:15:38.023351711 +0100
@@ -386,12 +386,12 @@ int usb_serial_generic_chars_in_buffer(s
dbg("%s - port %d", __func__, port->number);
- if (serial->type->max_in_flight_urbs) {
- spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&port->lock, flags);
+ if (serial->type->max_in_flight_urbs)
chars = port->tx_bytes_flight;
- spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
- } else if (serial->num_bulk_out)
+ else if (serial->num_bulk_out)
chars = kfifo_len(&port->write_fifo);
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&port->lock, flags);
dbg("%s - returns %d", __func__, chars);
return chars;
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