linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 02/13] driver core: firmware loader: fix races during loading firmware

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Date:	Wed, 25 Jul 2012 01:00:02 +0800
From:	Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@....com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 02/13] driver core: firmware loader: fix races during loading firmware

This patch fixes two races in loading firmware:

1, FW_STATUS_DONE should be set before waking up the task waitting
on _request_firmware_load, otherwise FW_STATUS_ABORT may be
thought as DONE mistakenly.

2, Inside _request_firmware_load(), there is a small window between
wait_for_completion() and mutex_lock(&fw_lock), and 'echo 1 > loading'
still may happen during the period, so this patch checks FW_STATUS_DONE
to prevent pages' buffer completed from being freed in firmware_loading_store.

Signed-off-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@...onical.com>
---
 drivers/base/firmware_class.c |   20 +++++++++++---------
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
index f789bbd..6e96b8c 100644
--- a/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
+++ b/drivers/base/firmware_class.c
@@ -243,18 +243,21 @@ static ssize_t firmware_loading_store(struct device *dev,
 	switch (loading) {
 	case 1:
 		/* discarding any previous partial load */
-		for (i = 0; i < fw_priv->nr_pages; i++)
-			__free_page(fw_priv->pages[i]);
-		kfree(fw_priv->pages);
-		fw_priv->pages = NULL;
-		fw_priv->page_array_size = 0;
-		fw_priv->nr_pages = 0;
-		set_bit(FW_STATUS_LOADING, &fw_priv->status);
+		if (!test_bit(FW_STATUS_DONE, &fw_priv->status)) {
+			for (i = 0; i < fw_priv->nr_pages; i++)
+				__free_page(fw_priv->pages[i]);
+			kfree(fw_priv->pages);
+			fw_priv->pages = NULL;
+			fw_priv->page_array_size = 0;
+			fw_priv->nr_pages = 0;
+			set_bit(FW_STATUS_LOADING, &fw_priv->status);
+		}
 		break;
 	case 0:
 		if (test_bit(FW_STATUS_LOADING, &fw_priv->status)) {
-			complete(&fw_priv->completion);
+			set_bit(FW_STATUS_DONE, &fw_priv->status);
 			clear_bit(FW_STATUS_LOADING, &fw_priv->status);
+			complete(&fw_priv->completion);
 			break;
 		}
 		/* fallthrough */
@@ -552,7 +555,6 @@ static int _request_firmware_load(struct firmware_priv *fw_priv, bool uevent,
 
 	wait_for_completion(&fw_priv->completion);
 
-	set_bit(FW_STATUS_DONE, &fw_priv->status);
 	del_timer_sync(&fw_priv->timeout);
 
 	mutex_lock(&fw_lock);
-- 
1.7.9.5

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