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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2014-12-08 16:50:38 +0800
committerHerbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>2014-12-22 23:02:40 +1100
commita027f30d72f2c4d27d6dd9bd053205d3102de7d1 (patch)
treec430933226d1f44da1cb2aca7c418a9baea8e17b
parent3a2c0ba5ad00c018c0bef39a2224aca950aa33f2 (diff)
hwrng: fix unregister race.
The previous patch added one potential problem: we can still be reading from a hwrng when it's unregistered. Add a wait for zero in the hwrng_unregister path. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/hw_random/core.c12
-rw-r--r--include/linux/hw_random.h1
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
index 089c18dc579e..8d609a026465 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(rng_mutex);
static DEFINE_MUTEX(reading_mutex);
static int data_avail;
static u8 *rng_buffer, *rng_fillbuf;
+static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(rng_done);
static unsigned short current_quality;
static unsigned short default_quality; /* = 0; default to "off" */
@@ -98,6 +99,11 @@ static inline void cleanup_rng(struct kref *kref)
if (rng->cleanup)
rng->cleanup(rng);
+
+ /* cleanup_done should be updated after cleanup finishes */
+ smp_wmb();
+ rng->cleanup_done = true;
+ wake_up_all(&rng_done);
}
static void set_current_rng(struct hwrng *rng)
@@ -494,6 +500,8 @@ int hwrng_register(struct hwrng *rng)
add_early_randomness(rng);
}
+ rng->cleanup_done = false;
+
out_unlock:
mutex_unlock(&rng_mutex);
out:
@@ -525,6 +533,10 @@ void hwrng_unregister(struct hwrng *rng)
kthread_stop(hwrng_fill);
} else
mutex_unlock(&rng_mutex);
+
+ /* Just in case rng is reading right now, wait. */
+ wait_event(rng_done, rng->cleanup_done &&
+ atomic_read(&rng->ref.refcount) == 0);
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hwrng_unregister);
diff --git a/include/linux/hw_random.h b/include/linux/hw_random.h
index c212e71ea886..7832e5008959 100644
--- a/include/linux/hw_random.h
+++ b/include/linux/hw_random.h
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ struct hwrng {
/* internal. */
struct list_head list;
struct kref ref;
+ bool cleanup_done;
};
/** Register a new Hardware Random Number Generator driver. */