linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: pi433: add mutex fixing race condition when accessing tx

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Date:   Tue, 12 Jun 2018 20:36:17 -0400
From:   Hugo Lefeuvre <hle@....eu.com>
To:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernelnewbies@...nelnewbies.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: pi433: add mutex fixing race condition when
 accessing tx_cfg

> We read the data from the user here and then we write it to the fifo
> in pi433_write().  We should be using the device->tx_fifo_lock so that
> we don't copy over the data at the same time we're writing it to the
> fifo.

Oh right, that makes the bug even worse.

In this case we don't even need to introduce a new lock, using
device->tx_fifo_lock should be fine. I'll update the patch.

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