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authorTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2009-12-03 08:10:17 -0500
committerTrond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>2009-12-03 08:10:17 -0500
commitf0380f3d16df8f9e2fcd1d8c16fb0d94370bea99 (patch)
tree447798d04462a3c45390a8840502c65330ffb5f9 /drivers/firmware/efivars.c
parentfeb8ca37cc3d83c07fd042509ef1e176cfeb2cfa (diff)
RPC: Fix two potential races in put_rpccred
It is possible for rpcauth_destroy_credcache() to cause the rpc credentials to be unhashed while put_rpccred is waiting for the rpc_credcache_lock on another cpu. Should this happen, then we can end up calling hlist_del_rcu(&cred->cr_hash) a second time in put_rpccred, thus causing list corruption. Should the credential actually be hashed, it is also possible for rpcauth_lookup_credcache to find and reference it before we get round to unhashing it. In this case, the call to rpcauth_unhash_cred will fail, and so we should just exit without destroying the cred. Reported-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
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