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author | Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> | 2011-07-09 16:43:22 +0200 |
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committer | Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> | 2011-07-16 07:24:32 +0200 |
commit | 93b37905f70083d6143f5f4dba0a45cc64379a62 (patch) | |
tree | b6917581cd390ed9967e1df9922940362ad4309e /drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c | |
parent | d873d794235efa590ab3c94d5ee22bb1fab19ac4 (diff) |
firewire: cdev: prevent race between first get_info ioctl and bus reset event queuing
Between open(2) of a /dev/fw* and the first FW_CDEV_IOC_GET_INFO
ioctl(2) on it, the kernel already queues FW_CDEV_EVENT_BUS_RESET events
to be read(2) by the client. The get_info ioctl is practically always
issued right away after open, hence this condition only occurs if the
client opens during a bus reset, especially during a rapid series of bus
resets.
The problem with this condition is twofold:
- These bus reset events carry the (as yet undocumented) @closure
value of 0. But it is not the kernel's place to choose closures;
they are privat to the client. E.g., this 0 value forced from the
kernel makes it unsafe for clients to dereference it as a pointer to
a closure object without NULL pointer check.
- It is impossible for clients to determine the relative order of bus
reset events from get_info ioctl(2) versus those from read(2),
except in one way: By comparison of closure values. Again, such a
procedure imposes complexity on clients and reduces freedom in use
of the bus reset closure.
So, change the ABI to suppress queuing of bus reset events before the
first FW_CDEV_IOC_GET_INFO ioctl was issued by the client.
Note, this ABI change cannot be version-controlled. The kernel cannot
distinguish old from new clients before the first FW_CDEV_IOC_GET_INFO
ioctl.
We will try to back-merge this change into currently maintained stable/
longterm series, and we only document the new behaviour. The old
behavior is now considered a kernel bug, which it basically is.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c')
-rw-r--r-- | drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c b/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c index 9b5915ebeb35..e6ad3bb6c1a6 100644 --- a/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c +++ b/drivers/firewire/core-cdev.c @@ -253,14 +253,11 @@ static int fw_device_op_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *file) init_waitqueue_head(&client->wait); init_waitqueue_head(&client->tx_flush_wait); INIT_LIST_HEAD(&client->phy_receiver_link); + INIT_LIST_HEAD(&client->link); kref_init(&client->kref); file->private_data = client; - mutex_lock(&device->client_list_mutex); - list_add_tail(&client->link, &device->client_list); - mutex_unlock(&device->client_list_mutex); - return nonseekable_open(inode, file); } @@ -451,15 +448,20 @@ static int ioctl_get_info(struct client *client, union ioctl_arg *arg) if (ret != 0) return -EFAULT; + mutex_lock(&client->device->client_list_mutex); + client->bus_reset_closure = a->bus_reset_closure; if (a->bus_reset != 0) { fill_bus_reset_event(&bus_reset, client); - if (copy_to_user(u64_to_uptr(a->bus_reset), - &bus_reset, sizeof(bus_reset))) - return -EFAULT; + ret = copy_to_user(u64_to_uptr(a->bus_reset), + &bus_reset, sizeof(bus_reset)); } + if (ret == 0 && list_empty(&client->link)) + list_add_tail(&client->link, &client->device->client_list); - return 0; + mutex_unlock(&client->device->client_list_mutex); + + return ret ? -EFAULT : 0; } static int add_client_resource(struct client *client, |