4.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ 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 @@ -807,7 +807,7 @@ 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; @@ -820,12 +820,15 @@ 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); @@ -836,8 +839,12 @@ 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);