Re: [PATCH] Fix open/close race in saa7134

[Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>]

On Sun, 22 Jun 2008 19:33:37 +0200
Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 10:05:07AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > 
> > From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
> > Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2008 10:03:02 -0700
> > Subject: [PATCH] Fix open/close race in saa7134
> > 
> > The saa7134 driver uses a (non-atomic) variable in an attempt to
> > only allow one opener of the device (how it deals with sending
> > the fd over unix sockets I don't know).
> > 
> > Unfortunately, the release function first decrements this variable,
> > and THEN goes on to disable more of the device. This allows for
> > a race where another opener of the device comes in after the
> > decrement of the variable, configures the hardware just to then see
> > the hardware be disabled by the rest of the release function.
> 
> Simplier fix:
> http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/9/308
> But I don't remember whether it was applied or not...


the patch might be simpler, but it's not fully correct...
the decrement is non-atomic and not protected by any lock whatsoever.

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