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tty-ldisc: be more careful in 'put_ldisc' locking 

Use 'atomic_dec_and_lock()' to make sure that we always hold the
tty_ldisc_lock when the ldisc count goes to zero. That way we can never
race against 'tty_ldisc_try()' increasing the count again.

Reported-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tested-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@mail.by>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Linus Torvalds 2009-08-03 14:54:56 -07:00 committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
parent 65b770468e
commit cbe9352fa0
1 changed files with 12 additions and 5 deletions
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drivers/char/tty_ldisc.c
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@ -55,25 +55,32 @@ static inline struct tty_ldisc *get_ldisc(struct tty_ldisc *ld)
return ld;
}
static inline void put_ldisc(struct tty_ldisc *ld)
static void put_ldisc(struct tty_ldisc *ld)
{
unsigned long flags;
if (WARN_ON_ONCE(!ld))
return;
/*
* If this is the last user, free the ldisc, and
* release the ldisc ops.
*
* We really want an "atomic_dec_and_lock_irqsave()",
* but we don't have it, so this does it by hand.
*/
if (atomic_dec_and_test(&ld->users)) {
unsigned long flags;
local_irq_save(flags);
if (atomic_dec_and_lock(&ld->users, &tty_ldisc_lock)) {
struct tty_ldisc_ops *ldo = ld->ops;
kfree(ld);
spin_lock_irqsave(&tty_ldisc_lock, flags);
ldo->refcount--;
module_put(ldo->owner);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&tty_ldisc_lock, flags);
kfree(ld);
return;
}
local_irq_restore(flags);
}
/**