USB: io_edgeport race condition in counters
authorOliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:27:17 +0000 (15:27 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:28:36 +0000 (13:28 -0700)
io_edgeport is using a global variable without locking.
This is _the_ classical race condition. This patch switches to atomic_t.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/usb/serial/io_edgeport.c

index 6a26a2e..187fd42 100644 (file)
@@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ static int debug;
 
 static int low_latency = 1;    /* tty low latency flag, on by default */
 
-static int CmdUrbs = 0;                /* Number of outstanding Command Write Urbs */
+static atomic_t CmdUrbs;               /* Number of outstanding Command Write Urbs */
 
 
 /* local function prototypes */
@@ -779,8 +779,8 @@ static void edge_bulk_out_cmd_callback (struct urb *urb)
 
        dbg("%s", __FUNCTION__);
 
-       CmdUrbs--;
-       dbg("%s - FREE URB %p (outstanding %d)", __FUNCTION__, urb, CmdUrbs);
+       atomic_dec(&CmdUrbs);
+       dbg("%s - FREE URB %p (outstanding %d)", __FUNCTION__, urb, atomic_read(&CmdUrbs));
 
 
        /* clean up the transfer buffer */
@@ -2317,8 +2317,8 @@ static int write_cmd_usb (struct edgeport_port *edge_port, unsigned char *buffer
        if (!urb)
                return -ENOMEM;
 
-       CmdUrbs++;
-       dbg("%s - ALLOCATE URB %p (outstanding %d)", __FUNCTION__, urb, CmdUrbs);
+       atomic_inc(&CmdUrbs);
+       dbg("%s - ALLOCATE URB %p (outstanding %d)", __FUNCTION__, urb, atomic_read(&CmdUrbs));
 
        usb_fill_bulk_urb (urb, edge_serial->serial->dev, 
                       usb_sndbulkpipe(edge_serial->serial->dev, edge_serial->bulk_out_endpoint),
@@ -2332,7 +2332,7 @@ static int write_cmd_usb (struct edgeport_port *edge_port, unsigned char *buffer
                dev_err(&edge_port->port->dev, "%s - usb_submit_urb(write command) failed, status = %d\n", __FUNCTION__, status);
                usb_kill_urb(urb);
                usb_free_urb(urb);
-               CmdUrbs--;
+               atomic_dec(&CmdUrbs);
                return status;
        }
 
@@ -3083,6 +3083,7 @@ static int __init edgeport_init(void)
        retval = usb_register(&io_driver);
        if (retval) 
                goto failed_usb_register;
+       atomic_set(&CmdUrbs, 0);
        info(DRIVER_DESC " " DRIVER_VERSION);
        return 0;