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firmware loader: Fix the concurrent request_firmware() race for kref_get/put
authorChuansheng Liu <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
Fri, 9 Nov 2012 17:27:22 +0000 (01:27 +0800)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Wed, 14 Nov 2012 23:04:23 +0000 (15:04 -0800)
commitbd9eb7fbe69111ea0ff1f999ef4a5f26d223d1d5
treef8dbda4472687bebbb757a0835c6d1441a984abc
parentce2fcbd99cef580623116bb33531dbc3e6f690b0
firmware loader: Fix the concurrent request_firmware() race for kref_get/put

There is one race that both request_firmware() with the same
firmware name.

The race scenerio is as below:
CPU1                                                  CPU2
request_firmware() -->
_request_firmware_load() return err                   another request_firmware() is coming -->
_request_firmware_cleanup is called -->               _request_firmware_prepare -->
release_firmware --->                                 fw_lookup_and_allocate_buf -->
                                                      spin_lock(&fwc->lock)
...                                                   __fw_lookup_buf() return true
fw_free_buf() will be called -->                      ...
kref_put -->
decrease the refcount to 0
                                                      kref_get(&tmp->ref) ==> it will trigger warning
                                                                              due to refcount == 0
__fw_free_buf() -->
...                                                   spin_unlock(&fwc->lock)
spin_lock(&fwc->lock)
list_del(&buf->list)
spin_unlock(&fwc->lock)
kfree(buf)
                                                      After that, the freed buf will be used.

The key race is decreasing refcount to 0 and list_del is not protected together by
fwc->lock, and it is possible another thread try to get it between refcount==0
and list_del.

Fix it here to protect it together.

Acked-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: liu chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/base/firmware_class.c