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 <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 83b0302d347a49f951e904184afe57ac3723476e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ashay Jaiswal <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 8 Jan 2015 18:54:25 +0530
Subject: regulator: core: fix race condition in regulator_put()
From: Ashay Jaiswal <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
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 [email protected] are
queue-3.14/regulator-core-fix-race-condition-in-regulator_put.patch
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