This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
driver core: platform: fix race condition with driver_override
to the 3.18-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
driver-core-platform-fix-race-condition-with-driver_override.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.18 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 6265539776a0810b7ce6398c27866ddb9c6bd154 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Salido <salidoa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2017 16:55:26 -0700
Subject: driver core: platform: fix race condition with driver_override
From: Adrian Salido <salidoa@xxxxxxxxxx>
commit 6265539776a0810b7ce6398c27866ddb9c6bd154 upstream.
The driver_override implementation is susceptible to race condition when
different threads are reading vs storing a different driver override.
Add locking to avoid race condition.
Fixes: 3d713e0e382e ("driver core: platform: add device binding path 'driver_override'")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Adrian Salido <salidoa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/base/platform.c | 11 +++++++++--
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/base/platform.c
+++ b/drivers/base/platform.c
@@ -727,7 +727,7 @@ static ssize_t driver_override_store(str
const char *buf, size_t count)
{
struct platform_device *pdev = to_platform_device(dev);
- char *driver_override, *old = pdev->driver_override, *cp;
+ char *driver_override, *old, *cp;
if (count > PATH_MAX)
return -EINVAL;
@@ -740,12 +740,15 @@ static ssize_t driver_override_store(str
if (cp)
*cp = '\0';
+ device_lock(dev);
+ old = pdev->driver_override;
if (strlen(driver_override)) {
pdev->driver_override = driver_override;
} else {
kfree(driver_override);
pdev->driver_override = NULL;
}
+ device_unlock(dev);
kfree(old);
@@ -756,8 +759,12 @@ static ssize_t driver_override_show(stru
struct device_attribute *attr, char *buf)
{
struct platform_device *pdev = to_platform_device(dev);
+ ssize_t len;
- return sprintf(buf, "%s\n", pdev->driver_override);
+ device_lock(dev);
+ len = sprintf(buf, "%s\n", pdev->driver_override);
+ device_unlock(dev);
+ return len;
}
static DEVICE_ATTR_RW(driver_override);
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from salidoa@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-3.18/driver-core-platform-fix-race-condition-with-driver_override.patch