netdev - [PATCH net 2/2] net: phy: fix potential race in the phylib state machine

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Date:   Wed, 13 Feb 2019 20:12:54 +0100
From:   Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>,
        Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@...il.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
Cc:     Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: [PATCH net 2/2] net: phy: fix potential race in the phylib state
 machine

Russell reported the following race in the phylib state machine
(quoting from his mail):

if (phy_polling_mode(phydev) && phy_is_started(phydev))
	phy_queue_state_machine(phydev, PHY_STATE_TIME);

state = PHY_UP
thread 0			thread 1
				phy_disconnect()
				+-phy_is_started()
phy_is_started()                |
				`-phy_stop()
				  +-phydev->state = PHY_HALTED
				  `-phy_stop_machine()
				    `-cancel_delayed_work_sync()
phy_queue_state_machine()
`-mod_delayed_work()

At this point, the phydev->state_queue() has been added back onto the
system workqueue despite phy_stop_machine() having been called and
cancel_delayed_work_sync() called on it.

Fix this by protecting the complete operation in thread 0.

Fixes: 2b3e88ea6528 ("net: phy: improve phy state checking")
Reported-by: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@...linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Heiner Kallweit <hkallweit1@...il.com>
---
 drivers/net/phy/phy.c | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
index 602816d70281..c5675df5fc6f 100644
--- a/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
+++ b/drivers/net/phy/phy.c
@@ -985,8 +985,10 @@ void phy_state_machine(struct work_struct *work)
 	 * state machine would be pointless and possibly error prone when
 	 * called from phy_disconnect() synchronously.
 	 */
+	mutex_lock(&phydev->lock);
 	if (phy_polling_mode(phydev) && phy_is_started(phydev))
 		phy_queue_state_machine(phydev, PHY_STATE_TIME);
+	mutex_unlock(&phydev->lock);
 }
 
 /**
-- 
2.20.1