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Subject[PATCH 13/15] staging: gasket: core: protect against races during unregister
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From: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@google.com>

Keep mutex held across the unregistration operation, until the
driver_desc field of the global table is removed, to prevent a
concurrent accessor from looking up the driver_desc while
gasket_unregister_device() is in the processing of removing it.

Reported-by: Guenter Roeck <groeck@chromium.org>
Signed-off-by: Todd Poynor <toddpoynor@google.com>
---
drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c | 3 +--
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c b/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c
index ace92f107ed58..a6462b6d702f1 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/gasket/gasket_core.c
@@ -1765,9 +1765,9 @@ void gasket_unregister_device(const struct gasket_driver_desc *driver_desc)
break;
}
}
- mutex_unlock(&g_mutex);

if (!internal_desc) {
+ mutex_unlock(&g_mutex);
pr_err("request to unregister unknown desc: %s, %d:%d\n",
driver_desc->name, driver_desc->major,
driver_desc->minor);
@@ -1780,7 +1780,6 @@ void gasket_unregister_device(const struct gasket_driver_desc *driver_desc)
class_destroy(internal_desc->class);

/* Finally, effectively "remove" the driver. */
- mutex_lock(&g_mutex);
g_descs[desc_idx].driver_desc = NULL;
mutex_unlock(&g_mutex);

--
2.18.0.597.ga71716f1ad-goog
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