mei: bus: make a client pointer always available

Change life time of the client pointer, allocate it upon client device
creation and free it upon device destruction, instead of upon
connection and disconnection.
This helps to eliminate racy NULL checks in the bus code.

Signed-off-by: Alexander Usyskin <alexander.usyskin@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/misc/mei/bus.c b/drivers/misc/mei/bus.c
index 7c075e9b25e5ee837364750bab05133827e4bfc2..483587f602491761701f9d247d09383b57dbdd9a 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/misc/mei/bus.c
+++ b/drivers/misc/mei/bus.c
@@ -187,9 +187,6 @@ ssize_t mei_cldev_send(struct mei_cl_device *cldev, u8 *buf, size_t length)
 {
        struct mei_cl *cl = cldev->cl;
 
-       if (cl == NULL)
-               return -ENODEV;
-
        return __mei_cl_send(cl, buf, length, MEI_CL_IO_TX_BLOCKING);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mei_cldev_send);
@@ -207,9 +204,6 @@ ssize_t mei_cldev_recv(struct mei_cl_device *cldev, u8 *buf, size_t length)
 {
        struct mei_cl *cl = cldev->cl;
 
-       if (cl == NULL)
-               return -ENODEV;
-
        return __mei_cl_recv(cl, buf, length);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mei_cldev_recv);
@@ -403,7 +397,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mei_cldev_ver);
  */
 bool mei_cldev_enabled(struct mei_cl_device *cldev)
 {
-       return cldev->cl && mei_cl_is_connected(cldev->cl);
+       return mei_cl_is_connected(cldev->cl);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(mei_cldev_enabled);
 
@@ -423,14 +417,13 @@ int mei_cldev_enable(struct mei_cl_device *cldev)
 
        cl = cldev->cl;
 
-       if (!cl) {
+       if (cl->state == MEI_FILE_UNINITIALIZED) {
                mutex_lock(&bus->device_lock);
-               cl = mei_cl_alloc_linked(bus);
+               ret = mei_cl_link(cl);
                mutex_unlock(&bus->device_lock);
-               if (IS_ERR(cl))
-                       return PTR_ERR(cl);
+               if (ret)
+                       return ret;
                /* update pointers */
-               cldev->cl = cl;
                cl->cldev = cldev;
        }
 
@@ -471,7 +464,7 @@ int mei_cldev_disable(struct mei_cl_device *cldev)
        struct mei_cl *cl;
        int err;
 
-       if (!cldev || !cldev->cl)
+       if (!cldev)
                return -ENODEV;
 
        cl = cldev->cl;
@@ -497,9 +490,6 @@ out:
        mei_cl_flush_queues(cl, NULL);
        mei_cl_unlink(cl);
 
-       kfree(cl);
-       cldev->cl = NULL;
-
        mutex_unlock(&bus->device_lock);
        return err;
 }
@@ -754,6 +744,7 @@ static void mei_cl_bus_dev_release(struct device *dev)
 
        mei_me_cl_put(cldev->me_cl);
        mei_dev_bus_put(cldev->bus);
+       kfree(cldev->cl);
        kfree(cldev);
 }
 
@@ -786,17 +777,25 @@ static struct mei_cl_device *mei_cl_bus_dev_alloc(struct mei_device *bus,
                                                  struct mei_me_client *me_cl)
 {
        struct mei_cl_device *cldev;
+       struct mei_cl *cl;
 
        cldev = kzalloc(sizeof(struct mei_cl_device), GFP_KERNEL);
        if (!cldev)
                return NULL;
 
+       cl = mei_cl_allocate(bus);
+       if (!cl) {
+               kfree(cldev);
+               return NULL;
+       }
+
        device_initialize(&cldev->dev);
        cldev->dev.parent = bus->dev;
        cldev->dev.bus    = &mei_cl_bus_type;
        cldev->dev.type   = &mei_cl_device_type;
        cldev->bus        = mei_dev_bus_get(bus);
        cldev->me_cl      = mei_me_cl_get(me_cl);
+       cldev->cl         = cl;
        mei_cl_bus_set_name(cldev);
        cldev->is_added   = 0;
        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&cldev->bus_list);