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authorSjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com>2013-01-22 09:50:26 +1030
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2013-02-07 11:37:37 +1030
commitaded024a12b32fc1ed9a80639681daae2d07ec25 (patch)
tree271a6d5c93abcece12f0cc52b2e34193b4b16134
parent9a9284153d965a57edc7162a8e57c14c97f3a935 (diff)
virtio_console: Don't access uninitialized data.
Don't access uninitialized work-queue when removing device. The work queue is initialized only if the device multi-queue. So don't call cancel_work unless this is a multi-queue device. This fixes the following panic: Kernel panic - not syncing: BUG! Call Trace: 62031b28: [<6026085d>] panic+0x16b/0x2d3 62031b30: [<6004ef5e>] flush_work+0x0/0x1d7 62031b60: [<602606f2>] panic+0x0/0x2d3 62031b68: [<600333b0>] memcpy+0x0/0x140 62031b80: [<6002d58a>] unblock_signals+0x0/0x84 62031ba0: [<602609c5>] printk+0x0/0xa0 62031bd8: [<60264e51>] __mutex_unlock_slowpath+0x13d/0x148 62031c10: [<6004ef5e>] flush_work+0x0/0x1d7 62031c18: [<60050234>] try_to_grab_pending+0x0/0x17e 62031c38: [<6004e984>] get_work_gcwq+0x71/0x8f 62031c48: [<60050539>] __cancel_work_timer+0x5b/0x115 62031c78: [<628acc85>] unplug_port+0x0/0x191 [virtio_console] 62031c98: [<6005061c>] cancel_work_sync+0x12/0x14 62031ca8: [<628ace96>] virtcons_remove+0x80/0x15c [virtio_console] 62031ce8: [<628191de>] virtio_dev_remove+0x1e/0x7e [virtio] 62031d08: [<601cf242>] __device_release_driver+0x75/0xe4 62031d28: [<601cf2dd>] device_release_driver+0x2c/0x40 62031d48: [<601ce0dd>] driver_unbind+0x7d/0xc6 62031d88: [<601cd5d9>] drv_attr_store+0x27/0x29 62031d98: [<60115f61>] sysfs_write_file+0x100/0x14d 62031df8: [<600b737d>] vfs_write+0xcb/0x184 62031e08: [<600b58b8>] filp_close+0x88/0x94 62031e38: [<600b7686>] sys_write+0x59/0x88 62031e88: [<6001ced1>] handle_syscall+0x5d/0x80 62031ea8: [<60030a74>] userspace+0x405/0x531 62031f08: [<600d32cc>] sys_dup+0x0/0x5e 62031f28: [<601b11d6>] strcpy+0x0/0x18 62031f38: [<600be46c>] do_execve+0x10/0x12 62031f48: [<600184c7>] run_init_process+0x43/0x45 62031fd8: [<60019a91>] new_thread_handler+0xba/0xbc Signed-off-by: Sjur Brændeland <sjur.brandeland@stericsson.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/virtio_console.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
index 684b0d53764..ee4dbeafb37 100644
--- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
@@ -2062,7 +2062,8 @@ static void virtcons_remove(struct virtio_device *vdev)
/* Disable interrupts for vqs */
vdev->config->reset(vdev);
/* Finish up work that's lined up */
- cancel_work_sync(&portdev->control_work);
+ if (use_multiport(portdev))
+ cancel_work_sync(&portdev->control_work);
list_for_each_entry_safe(port, port2, &portdev->ports, list)
unplug_port(port);