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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
To: Duncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Frederic Detienne <fd@cisco.com>
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] [PATCH 8/9] USB usbfs: missing lock in proc_getdriver
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 13:04:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200404141304.48641.oliver@neukum.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200404141247.24227.baldrick@free.fr>


> +	down_read(&usb_bus_type.subsys.rwsem);
> +	if (interface && interface->dev.driver) {
> +		strncpy(gd.driver, interface->dev.driver->name, sizeof(gd.driver));
> +		ret = copy_to_user(arg, &gd, sizeof(gd)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
> +	}
> +	up_read(&usb_bus_type.subsys.rwsem);
> +	return ret;

IMHO you should drop the lock before you copy to userspace.

	Regards
		Oliver


  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-14 11:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-14 10:47 Duncan Sands
2004-04-14 11:04 ` Oliver Neukum [this message]
2004-04-14 11:37   ` [linux-usb-devel] " Duncan Sands
2004-04-14 13:29     ` Oliver Neukum
2004-04-14 14:04       ` Duncan Sands

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