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authorAmit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>2013-07-29 14:17:13 +0930
committerBen Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>2013-09-10 01:57:16 +0100
commit55fa4acf3f2750cf70fbae4534b630f74397e6b9 (patch)
treee3821c109b6082dbbbff16bcd5603fcec66ce9c6
parent0426ea8291c0cdcf0d585c39a7bfae18e621d93b (diff)
virtio: console: fix race in port_fops_open() and port unplug
commit 671bdea2b9f210566610603ecbb6584c8a201c8c upstream. Between open() being called and processed, the port can be unplugged. Check if this happened, and bail out. A simple test script to reproduce this is: while true; do for i in $(seq 1 100); do echo $i > /dev/vport0p3; done; done; This opens and closes the port a lot of times; unplugging the port while this is happening triggers the bug. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/virtio_console.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
index 5746a36f810..6379ffa86b6 100644
--- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
@@ -798,6 +798,10 @@ static int port_fops_open(struct inode *inode, struct file *filp)
/* We get the port with a kref here */
port = find_port_by_devt(cdev->dev);
+ if (!port) {
+ /* Port was unplugged before we could proceed */
+ return -ENXIO;
+ }
filp->private_data = port;
/*