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idr: fix race in idr code
authorSonny Rao <sonny@burdell.org>
Wed, 6 Sep 2006 14:23:48 +0000 (16:23 +0200)
committerAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Wed, 6 Sep 2006 14:23:48 +0000 (16:23 +0200)
commiteebf6e7fd7915da8ad18380107243a1faa7a8c20
treebd33cf1e81a271afad1e7d3a6b12bb42ee65df6e
parent397f9fde9b9a9149be2249e1439ccb3a74b85594
idr: fix race in idr code

I ran into a bug where the kernel died in the idr code:

cpu 0x1d: Vector: 300 (Data Access) at [c000000b7096f710]
    pc: c0000000001f8984: .idr_get_new_above_int+0x140/0x330
    lr: c0000000001f89b4: .idr_get_new_above_int+0x170/0x330
    sp: c000000b7096f990
   msr: 800000000000b032
   dar: 0
 dsisr: 40010000
  current = 0xc000000b70d43830
  paca    = 0xc000000000556900
    pid   = 2022, comm = hwup
1d:mon> t
[c000000b7096f990c0000000000d2ad8 .expand_files+0x2e8/0x364 (unreliable)
[c000000b7096faa0c0000000001f8bf8 .idr_get_new_above+0x18/0x68
[c000000b7096fb20c00000000002a054 .init_new_context+0x5c/0xf0
[c000000b7096fbc0c000000000049dc8 .copy_process+0x91c/0x1404
[c000000b7096fcd0c00000000004a988 .do_fork+0xd8/0x224
[c000000b7096fdc0c00000000000ebdc .sys_clone+0x5c/0x74
[c000000b7096fe30c000000000008950 .ppc_clone+0x8/0xc
-- Exception: c00 (System Call) at 000000000fde887c
SP (f8b4e7a0) is in userspace

Turned out to be a race-condition and NULL ptr deref, here's my fix:

Users of the idr code are supposed to call idr_pre_get without locking, so the
idr code must serialize itself with respect to layer allocations.  However, it
fails to do so in an error path in idr_get_new_above_int().  I added the
missing locking to fix this.

Signed-off-by: Sonny Rao <sonny@burdell.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
lib/idr.c