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author | Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk> | 2013-01-04 11:33:21 +0000 |
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committer | Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> | 2013-01-07 14:48:25 -0800 |
commit | c0729eeefdcd76db338f635162bf0739fd2c5f6f (patch) | |
tree | 93325e4764bd7144631ff129b4e0f412f48d0d7f /net | |
parent | 34ffb33e09132401872fe79e95c30824ce194d23 (diff) |
staging: comedi: comedi_test: fix race when cancelling command
Éric Piel reported a kernel oops in the "comedi_test" module. It was a
NULL pointer dereference within `waveform_ai_interrupt()` (actually a
timer function) that sometimes occurred when a running asynchronous
command is cancelled (either by the `COMEDI_CANCEL` ioctl or by closing
the device file).
This seems to be a race between the caller of `waveform_ai_cancel()`
which on return from that function goes and tears down the running
command, and the timer function which uses the command. In particular,
`async->cmd.chanlist` gets freed (and the pointer set to NULL) by
`do_become_nonbusy()` in "comedi_fops.c" but a previously scheduled
`waveform_ai_interrupt()` timer function will dereference that pointer
regardless, leading to the oops.
Fix it by replacing the `del_timer()` call in `waveform_ai_cancel()`
with `del_timer_sync()`.
Signed-off-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
Reported-by: Éric Piel <piel@delmic.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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