From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756045AbcBWVsS (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:48:18 -0500 Received: from shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk ([88.96.1.126]:41740 "EHLO shadbolt.e.decadent.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755637AbcBWVpA (ORCPT ); Tue, 23 Feb 2016 16:45:00 -0500 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Ben Hutchings To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@vger.kernel.org CC: akpm@linux-foundation.org, "Johannes Berg" , "Dmitry Vyukov" Date: Tue, 23 Feb 2016 21:42:03 +0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: LinuxStableQueue (scripts by bwh) Subject: [PATCH 3.2 21/67] rfkill: fix rfkill_fop_read wait_event usage In-Reply-To: X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 92.40.248.141 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: ben@decadent.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on shadbolt.decadent.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.2.78-rc1 review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Johannes Berg commit 6736fde9672ff6717ac576e9bba2fd5f3dfec822 upstream. The code within wait_event_interruptible() is called with !TASK_RUNNING, so mustn't call any functions that can sleep, like mutex_lock(). Since we re-check the list_empty() in a loop after the wait, it's safe to simply use list_empty() without locking. This bug has existed forever, but was only discovered now because all userspace implementations, including the default 'rfkill' tool, use poll() or select() to get a readable fd before attempting to read. Fixes: c64fb01627e24 ("rfkill: create useful userspace interface") Reported-by: Dmitry Vyukov Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings --- net/rfkill/core.c | 16 ++++------------ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) --- a/net/rfkill/core.c +++ b/net/rfkill/core.c @@ -1065,17 +1065,6 @@ static unsigned int rfkill_fop_poll(stru return res; } -static bool rfkill_readable(struct rfkill_data *data) -{ - bool r; - - mutex_lock(&data->mtx); - r = !list_empty(&data->events); - mutex_unlock(&data->mtx); - - return r; -} - static ssize_t rfkill_fop_read(struct file *file, char __user *buf, size_t count, loff_t *pos) { @@ -1092,8 +1081,11 @@ static ssize_t rfkill_fop_read(struct fi goto out; } mutex_unlock(&data->mtx); + /* since we re-check and it just compares pointers, + * using !list_empty() without locking isn't a problem + */ ret = wait_event_interruptible(data->read_wait, - rfkill_readable(data)); + !list_empty(&data->events)); mutex_lock(&data->mtx); if (ret)