linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.4 30/46] USB: ldusb: fix ring-buffer locking

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Date:   Mon,  4 Nov 2019 22:45:01 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Subject: [PATCH 4.4 30/46] USB: ldusb: fix ring-buffer locking

From: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>

commit d98ee2a19c3334e9343df3ce254b496f1fc428eb upstream.

The custom ring-buffer implementation was merged without any locking or
explicit memory barriers, but a spinlock was later added by commit
9d33efd9a791 ("USB: ldusb bugfix").

The lock did not cover the update of the tail index once the entry had
been processed, something which could lead to memory corruption on
weakly ordered architectures or due to compiler optimisations.

Specifically, a completion handler running on another CPU might observe
the incremented tail index and update the entry before ld_usb_read() is
done with it.

Fixes: 2824bd250f0b ("[PATCH] USB: add ldusb driver")
Fixes: 9d33efd9a791 ("USB: ldusb bugfix")
Cc: stable <stable@...r.kernel.org>     # 2.6.13
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191022143203.5260-2-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>

---
 drivers/usb/misc/ldusb.c |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/usb/misc/ldusb.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/misc/ldusb.c
@@ -499,11 +499,11 @@ static ssize_t ld_usb_read(struct file *
 		retval = -EFAULT;
 		goto unlock_exit;
 	}
-	dev->ring_tail = (dev->ring_tail+1) % ring_buffer_size;
-
 	retval = bytes_to_read;
 
 	spin_lock_irq(&dev->rbsl);
+	dev->ring_tail = (dev->ring_tail + 1) % ring_buffer_size;
+
 	if (dev->buffer_overflow) {
 		dev->buffer_overflow = 0;
 		spin_unlock_irq(&dev->rbsl);