2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Rodolfo Giometti commit cbf83cc5a29dba480cf1ba1c5e3417a0d4a31410 upstream. Userland programs may read/write PPS parameters at same time and these operations may corrupt PPS data. Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti Tested-by: Reg Clemens Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/pps/pps.c | 11 ++++++++--- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/pps/pps.c +++ b/drivers/pps/pps.c @@ -71,9 +71,14 @@ static long pps_cdev_ioctl(struct file * case PPS_GETPARAMS: pr_debug("PPS_GETPARAMS: source %d\n", pps->id); - /* Return current parameters */ - err = copy_to_user(uarg, &pps->params, - sizeof(struct pps_kparams)); + spin_lock_irq(&pps->lock); + + /* Get the current parameters */ + params = pps->params; + + spin_unlock_irq(&pps->lock); + + err = copy_to_user(uarg, ¶ms, sizeof(struct pps_kparams)); if (err) return -EFAULT; -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/