linux-kernel - [PATCH] [MTD] Protect chip->ops with correct locking

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Date:	Mon, 21 Aug 2006 10:05:10 +0100
From:	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>
To:	Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-mtd <linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH] [MTD] Protect chip->ops with correct locking - fix jffs2
	corruption

Read the return value before we release the nand device otherwise the
value can become corrupted by another user of chip->ops, ultimately
resulting in filesystem corruption.

Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@...ys.net>
Acked-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@...il.com>

---

This fixes the jffs2 errors and filesystem corruption I reported. It
should be applied for 2.6.18.

On Sun, 2006-08-20 at 18:35 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 19, 2006 at 08:34:46PM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote: 
> > We have multiple confirmations that this patch fixes the issue
> > reported.  I agree it should go in 2.6.18.
> > 
> > Greg, can you add this to your tree?
> 
> Add what to what tree?  I need things to be a bit more specific
> here :) 

 drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c |    6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

Index: git/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c
===================================================================
--- git.orig/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c	2006-08-17 22:46:19.000000000 +0100
+++ git/drivers/mtd/nand/nand_base.c	2006-08-17 22:47:27.000000000 +0100
@@ -1093,9 +1093,10 @@ static int nand_read(struct mtd_info *mt
 
 	ret = nand_do_read_ops(mtd, from, &chip->ops);
 
+	*retlen = chip->ops.retlen;
+
 	nand_release_device(mtd);
 
-	*retlen = chip->ops.retlen;
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -1691,9 +1692,10 @@ static int nand_write(struct mtd_info *m
 
 	ret = nand_do_write_ops(mtd, to, &chip->ops);
 
+	*retlen = chip->ops.retlen;
+
 	nand_release_device(mtd);
 
-	*retlen = chip->ops.retlen;
 	return ret;
 }
 


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