linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 089/105] media: dvb_frontend: fix locking issues at dvb_frontend_get

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Date:   Sun,  1 Jul 2018 18:02:39 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 089/105] media: dvb_frontend: fix locking issues at dvb_frontend_get_event()

4.4-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

------------------

From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>

commit 76d81243a487c09619822ef8e7201a756e58a87d upstream.

As warned by smatch:
	drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c:314 dvb_frontend_get_event() warn: inconsistent returns 'sem:&fepriv->sem'.
	  Locked on:   line 288
	               line 295
	               line 306
	               line 314
	  Unlocked on: line 303

The lock implementation for get event is wrong, as, if an
interrupt occurs, down_interruptible() will fail, and the
routine will call up() twice when userspace calls the ioctl
again.

The bad code is there since when Linux migrated to git, in
2005.

Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@...pensource.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c |   23 +++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c
+++ b/drivers/media/dvb-core/dvb_frontend.c
@@ -230,8 +230,20 @@ static void dvb_frontend_add_event(struc
 	wake_up_interruptible (&events->wait_queue);
 }
 
+static int dvb_frontend_test_event(struct dvb_frontend_private *fepriv,
+				   struct dvb_fe_events *events)
+{
+	int ret;
+
+	up(&fepriv->sem);
+	ret = events->eventw != events->eventr;
+	down(&fepriv->sem);
+
+	return ret;
+}
+
 static int dvb_frontend_get_event(struct dvb_frontend *fe,
-			    struct dvb_frontend_event *event, int flags)
+			          struct dvb_frontend_event *event, int flags)
 {
 	struct dvb_frontend_private *fepriv = fe->frontend_priv;
 	struct dvb_fe_events *events = &fepriv->events;
@@ -249,13 +261,8 @@ static int dvb_frontend_get_event(struct
 		if (flags & O_NONBLOCK)
 			return -EWOULDBLOCK;
 
-		up(&fepriv->sem);
-
-		ret = wait_event_interruptible (events->wait_queue,
-						events->eventw != events->eventr);
-
-		if (down_interruptible (&fepriv->sem))
-			return -ERESTARTSYS;
+		ret = wait_event_interruptible(events->wait_queue,
+					       dvb_frontend_test_event(fepriv, events));
 
 		if (ret < 0)
 			return ret;