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Commit e1c3cdb2 authored by Madhuparna Bhowmik's avatar Madhuparna Bhowmik Committed by Linus Torvalds
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rapidio: avoid data race between file operation callbacks and mport_cdev_add().



Fields of md(mport_dev) are set after cdev_device_add().  However, the
file operation callbacks can be called after cdev_device_add() and
therefore accesses to fields of md in the callbacks can race with the rest
of the mport_cdev_add() function.

One such example is INIT_LIST_HEAD(&md->portwrites) in mport_cdev_add(),
the list is initialised after cdev_device_add().  This can race with
list_add_tail(&pw_filter->md_node,&md->portwrites) in
rio_mport_add_pw_filter() which is called by unlocked_ioctl.

To avoid such data races use cdev_device_add() after initializing md.

Found by Linux Driver Verification project (linuxtesting.org).

Signed-off-by: default avatarMadhuparna Bhowmik <madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: default avatarAlexandre Bounine <alex.bou9@gmail.com>
Cc: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Mike Marshall <hubcap@omnibond.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ira Weiny <ira.weiny@intel.com>
Cc: Allison Randal <allison@lohutok.net>
Cc: Pavel Andrianov <andrianov@ispras.ru>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200426112950.1803-1-madhuparnabhowmik10@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 762a3af6
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