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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: wangbiao <biao.wang@intel.com>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo.kernel.org@gmail.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@elte.hu, a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl,
	rusty@rustcorp.com.au, william.douglas@intel.com,
	di.zhang@intel.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3] usbnet: fix race condition caused spinlock bad magic issue
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2013 08:44:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1384415082.18291.8.camel@linux-fkkt.site> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1384394595.4229.24.camel@wangbiao>

On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 10:03 +0800, wangbiao wrote:
> From: wang, biao <biao.wang@intel.com>
> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:23:40 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] usbnet: fix race condition caused spinlock bad magic issue
> 
> there is race between usbnet_terminate_urbs and usbnet_bh.
> for example:
>     cpu 0                                     cpu 1
>                                           usbnet_suspend
> usbnet_bh {                               ->usbnet_terminate_urbs {
>                                               dev->wait = &unlink_wakeup;
>                                               while(....){..}//break
>     if(dev->wait) is true
>                        		              dev->wait=NULL
>                                           }//unlink_wakeup is invalid
>     __wake_up(dev->wait)//garbage value
> }
> 
> the race is due to unprotection of dev->wait, so this patch involves a
> spinlock to avoid it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: wang, biao <biao.wang@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang, Di <di.zhang@intel.com>
Acked-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>


  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-14  8:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-11-14  2:03 wangbiao
2013-11-14  7:44 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2013-11-14  9:18   ` Bjørn Mork
2013-11-14  7:58 ` Ingo Molnar

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