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authorRuss Dill <russ.dill@gmail.com>2009-11-18 11:02:13 -0700
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-12-11 11:55:20 -0800
commita2582bd478c13c574d4c16ef1209d333f2a25935 (patch)
tree77fd2b7ab8b5f6696872f3cf7151ff3ae0c02554 /drivers/usb/core/usb.c
parent22a627ba81e0f75b994d37adb68761a9b9ef7186 (diff)
USB: Close usb_find_interface race
USB drivers that create character devices call usb_register_dev in their probe function. This associates the usb_interface device with that minor number and creates the character device and announces it to the world. However, the driver's probe function is called before the new usb_interface is added to the driver's klist_devices. This is a problem because userspace will respond to the character device creation announcement by opening the character device. The driver's open function will the call usb_find_interface to find the usb_interface associated with that minor number. usb_find_interface will walk the driver's list of devices and find the usb_interface with the matching minor number. Because the announcement happens before the usb_interface is added to the driver's klist_devices, a race condition exists. A straightforward fix is to walk the list of devices on usb_bus_type instead since the device is added to that list before the announcement occurs. bus_find_device calls get_device to bump the reference count on the found device. It is arguable that the reference count should be dropped by the caller of usb_find_interface instead of usb_find_interface, however, the current users of usb_find_interface do not expect this. Signed-off-by: Russ Dill <Russ.Dill@gmail.com> Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/usb/core/usb.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/core/usb.c28
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 18 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/usb.c b/drivers/usb/core/usb.c
index b1b85abb9a2d..d1e9440799de 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/usb.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/usb.c
@@ -130,24 +130,17 @@ struct usb_host_interface *usb_altnum_to_altsetting(
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_altnum_to_altsetting);
-struct find_interface_arg {
- int minor;
- struct usb_interface *interface;
-};
-
static int __find_interface(struct device *dev, void *data)
{
- struct find_interface_arg *arg = data;
+ int *minor = data;
struct usb_interface *intf;
if (!is_usb_interface(dev))
return 0;
intf = to_usb_interface(dev);
- if (intf->minor != -1 && intf->minor == arg->minor) {
- arg->interface = intf;
+ if (intf->minor != -1 && intf->minor == *minor)
return 1;
- }
return 0;
}
@@ -156,21 +149,20 @@ static int __find_interface(struct device *dev, void *data)
* @drv: the driver whose current configuration is considered
* @minor: the minor number of the desired device
*
- * This walks the driver device list and returns a pointer to the interface
+ * This walks the bus device list and returns a pointer to the interface
* with the matching minor. Note, this only works for devices that share the
* USB major number.
*/
struct usb_interface *usb_find_interface(struct usb_driver *drv, int minor)
{
- struct find_interface_arg argb;
- int retval;
+ struct device *dev;
+
+ dev = bus_find_device(&usb_bus_type, NULL, &minor, __find_interface);
+
+ /* Drop reference count from bus_find_device */
+ put_device(dev);
- argb.minor = minor;
- argb.interface = NULL;
- /* eat the error, it will be in argb.interface */
- retval = driver_for_each_device(&drv->drvwrap.driver, NULL, &argb,
- __find_interface);
- return argb.interface;
+ return dev ? to_usb_interface(dev) : NULL;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_find_interface);