This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled regulator: core: fix race condition in regulator_put() to the 3.14-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: regulator-core-fix-race-condition-in-regulator_put.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 83b0302d347a49f951e904184afe57ac3723476e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ashay Jaiswal <ashayj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 18:54:25 +0530 Subject: regulator: core: fix race condition in regulator_put() From: Ashay Jaiswal <ashayj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 83b0302d347a49f951e904184afe57ac3723476e upstream. The regulator framework maintains a list of consumer regulators for a regulator device and protects it from concurrent access using the regulator device's mutex lock. In the case of regulator_put() the consumer is removed and regulator device's parameters are updated without holding the regulator device's mutex. This would lead to a race condition between the regulator_put() and any function which traverses the consumer list or modifies regulator device's parameters. Fix this race condition by holding the regulator device's mutex in case of regulator_put. Signed-off-by: Ashay Jaiswal <ashayj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/regulator/core.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/regulator/core.c +++ b/drivers/regulator/core.c @@ -1479,7 +1479,7 @@ struct regulator *regulator_get_optional } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(regulator_get_optional); -/* Locks held by regulator_put() */ +/* regulator_list_mutex lock held by regulator_put() */ static void _regulator_put(struct regulator *regulator) { struct regulator_dev *rdev; @@ -1494,12 +1494,14 @@ static void _regulator_put(struct regula /* remove any sysfs entries */ if (regulator->dev) sysfs_remove_link(&rdev->dev.kobj, regulator->supply_name); + mutex_lock(&rdev->mutex); kfree(regulator->supply_name); list_del(®ulator->list); kfree(regulator); rdev->open_count--; rdev->exclusive = 0; + mutex_unlock(&rdev->mutex); module_put(rdev->owner); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ashayj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.14/regulator-core-fix-race-condition-in-regulator_put.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html