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authorRuss Dill <Russ.Dill@gmail.com>2009-12-14 23:45:35 -0500
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2009-12-15 10:50:28 -0500
commitc2d284ee04ab6f6718de2ddcf1b43160e046c41d (patch)
tree915ff77064dd9c6c002f416d2b1ead97d1c7c970 /drivers/usb
parentab7cd8c76cb47f1bda0ad964d309b4efce81b5e9 (diff)
USB: Close usb_find_interface race v3
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. The original version of this patch only matched against minor number instead of driver and minor number. This version matches against both. 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')
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/core/usb.c31
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 15 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/usb.c b/drivers/usb/core/usb.c
index 932f68e6ad19..d86276c639c1 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/usb.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/usb.c
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_altnum_to_altsetting);
169 169
170struct find_interface_arg { 170struct find_interface_arg {
171 int minor; 171 int minor;
172 struct usb_interface *interface; 172 struct device_driver *drv;
173}; 173};
174 174
175static int __find_interface(struct device *dev, void *data) 175static int __find_interface(struct device *dev, void *data)
@@ -180,12 +180,10 @@ static int __find_interface(struct device *dev, void *data)
180 if (!is_usb_interface(dev)) 180 if (!is_usb_interface(dev))
181 return 0; 181 return 0;
182 182
183 if (dev->driver != arg->drv)
184 return 0;
183 intf = to_usb_interface(dev); 185 intf = to_usb_interface(dev);
184 if (intf->minor != -1 && intf->minor == arg->minor) { 186 return intf->minor == arg->minor;
185 arg->interface = intf;
186 return 1;
187 }
188 return 0;
189} 187}
190 188
191/** 189/**
@@ -193,21 +191,24 @@ static int __find_interface(struct device *dev, void *data)
193 * @drv: the driver whose current configuration is considered 191 * @drv: the driver whose current configuration is considered
194 * @minor: the minor number of the desired device 192 * @minor: the minor number of the desired device
195 * 193 *
196 * This walks the driver device list and returns a pointer to the interface 194 * This walks the bus device list and returns a pointer to the interface
197 * with the matching minor. Note, this only works for devices that share the 195 * with the matching minor and driver. Note, this only works for devices
198 * USB major number. 196 * that share the USB major number.
199 */ 197 */
200struct usb_interface *usb_find_interface(struct usb_driver *drv, int minor) 198struct usb_interface *usb_find_interface(struct usb_driver *drv, int minor)
201{ 199{
202 struct find_interface_arg argb; 200 struct find_interface_arg argb;
203 int retval; 201 struct device *dev;
204 202
205 argb.minor = minor; 203 argb.minor = minor;
206 argb.interface = NULL; 204 argb.drv = &drv->drvwrap.driver;
207 /* eat the error, it will be in argb.interface */ 205
208 retval = driver_for_each_device(&drv->drvwrap.driver, NULL, &argb, 206 dev = bus_find_device(&usb_bus_type, NULL, &argb, __find_interface);
209 __find_interface); 207
210 return argb.interface; 208 /* Drop reference count from bus_find_device */
209 put_device(dev);
210
211 return dev ? to_usb_interface(dev) : NULL;
211} 212}
212EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_find_interface); 213EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(usb_find_interface);
213 214