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[PATCH] USB: usbserial: race-condition fix.
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There is a race-condition in usb-serial driver that can be triggered if
a processes does 'port->tty->driver_data = NULL' in serial_close() while
other processes is in kernel-space about to call serial_ioctl() on the
same port.

This happens because a process can open the device while there is
another one closing it.

The patch below fixes that by adding a semaphore to ensure that no
process will open the device while another process is closing it.

Note that we can't use spinlocks here, since serial_open() and
serial_close() can sleep.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Luiz Fernando Capitulino authored and Greg Kroah-Hartman committed Jan 4, 2006
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14 changes: 13 additions & 1 deletion drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c
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#include <linux/list.h>
#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/semaphore.h>
#include <linux/usb.h>
#include "usb-serial.h"
#include "pl2303.h"
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port = serial->port[portNumber];
if (!port)
return -ENODEV;

if (down_interruptible(&port->sem))
return -ERESTARTSYS;

++port->open_count;

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goto bailout_module_put;
}

up(&port->sem);
return 0;

bailout_module_put:
module_put(serial->type->driver.owner);
bailout_kref_put:
kref_put(&serial->kref, destroy_serial);
port->open_count = 0;
up(&port->sem);
return retval;
}

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dbg("%s - port %d", __FUNCTION__, port->number);

down(&port->sem);

if (port->open_count == 0)
return;
goto out;

--port->open_count;
if (port->open_count == 0) {
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}

kref_put(&port->serial->kref, destroy_serial);

out:
up(&port->sem);
}

static int serial_write (struct tty_struct * tty, const unsigned char *buf, int count)
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port->number = i + serial->minor;
port->serial = serial;
spin_lock_init(&port->lock);
sema_init(&port->sem, 1);
INIT_WORK(&port->work, usb_serial_port_softint, port);
serial->port[i] = port;
}
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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.h
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#include <linux/config.h>
#include <linux/kref.h>
#include <asm/semaphore.h>

#define SERIAL_TTY_MAJOR 188 /* Nice legal number now */
#define SERIAL_TTY_MINORS 255 /* loads of devices :) */
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* @serial: pointer back to the struct usb_serial owner of this port.
* @tty: pointer to the corresponding tty for this port.
* @lock: spinlock to grab when updating portions of this structure.
* @sem: semaphore used to synchronize serial_open() and serial_close()
* access for this port.
* @number: the number of the port (the minor number).
* @interrupt_in_buffer: pointer to the interrupt in buffer for this port.
* @interrupt_in_urb: pointer to the interrupt in struct urb for this port.
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struct usb_serial * serial;
struct tty_struct * tty;
spinlock_t lock;
struct semaphore sem;
unsigned char number;

unsigned char * interrupt_in_buffer;
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