linux-kernel - [PATCH 1/1] w1: fix oops when w1_search is called from netlink connector

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Message-ID: <20130302135015.GA21448@gmail.com>
Date:	Sat, 2 Mar 2013 14:50:15 +0100
From:	Marcin Jurkowski <marcin1j@...il.com>
To:	Sven Geggus <lists@...hsschwanzdomain.de>
Cc:	Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@...emap.net>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH 1/1] w1: fix oops when w1_search is called from netlink
 connector

On Sat, Mar 02, 2013 at 10:45:10AM +0100, Sven Geggus wrote:
> This is the bad commit I found doing git bisect:
> 04f482faf50535229a5a5c8d629cf963899f857c is the first bad commit
> commit 04f482faf50535229a5a5c8d629cf963899f857c
> Author: Patrick McHardy <kaber@...sh.net>
> Date:   Mon Mar 28 08:39:36 2011 +0000

Good job. I was too lazy to bisect for bad commit;)

Reading the code I found problematic kthread_should_stop call from netlink 
connector which causes the oops. After applying a patch, I've been testing 
owfs+w1 setup for nearly two days and it seems to work very reliable (no 
hangs, no memleaks etc).
More detailed description and possible fix is given below:

Function w1_search can be called from either kthread or netlink callback.
While the former works fine, the latter causes oops due to kthread_should_stop
invocation.

This patch adds a check if w1_search is serving netlink command, skipping
kthread_should_stop invocation if so.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Jurkowski <marcin1j@...il.com>
---
 drivers/w1/w1.c | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/w1/w1.c b/drivers/w1/w1.c
index 7994d933..7e2220d 100644
--- a/drivers/w1/w1.c
+++ b/drivers/w1/w1.c
@@ -924,7 +924,8 @@ void w1_search(struct w1_master *dev, u8 search_type, w1_slave_found_callback cb
 			tmp64 = (triplet_ret >> 2);
 			rn |= (tmp64 << i);
 
-			if (kthread_should_stop()) {
+			/* ensure we're called from kthread and not by netlink callback */
+			if (!dev->priv && kthread_should_stop()) {
 				mutex_unlock(&dev->bus_mutex);
 				dev_dbg(&dev->dev, "Abort w1_search\n");
 				return;
-- 
1.7.12.4

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