From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Date: Mon, 5 Feb 2007 14:56:15 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: USB: fix concurrent buffer access in the hub driver
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.21-rc1~82^2~25
X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=db90e7a15cb4a160610b4e58576f25539ca216e7;p=linux-2.6

USB: fix concurrent buffer access in the hub driver

This patch (as849) fixes a bug in the USB hub driver.  A single
pre-allocated buffer is used for all port status reads, but nothing
guarantees exclusive use of the buffer.  A mutex is added to provide
this guarantee.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---

diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
index 7d60065735..50c0db1530 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ struct usb_hub {
 		struct usb_hub_status	hub;
 		struct usb_port_status	port;
 	}			*status;	/* buffer for status reports */
+	struct mutex		status_mutex;	/* for the status buffer */
 
 	int			error;		/* last reported error */
 	int			nerrors;	/* track consecutive errors */
@@ -535,6 +536,7 @@ static int hub_hub_status(struct usb_hub *hub,
 {
 	int ret;
 
+	mutex_lock(&hub->status_mutex);
 	ret = get_hub_status(hub->hdev, &hub->status->hub);
 	if (ret < 0)
 		dev_err (hub->intfdev,
@@ -544,6 +546,7 @@ static int hub_hub_status(struct usb_hub *hub,
 		*change = le16_to_cpu(hub->status->hub.wHubChange); 
 		ret = 0;
 	}
+	mutex_unlock(&hub->status_mutex);
 	return ret;
 }
 
@@ -617,6 +620,7 @@ static int hub_configure(struct usb_hub *hub,
 		ret = -ENOMEM;
 		goto fail;
 	}
+	mutex_init(&hub->status_mutex);
 
 	hub->descriptor = kmalloc(sizeof(*hub->descriptor), GFP_KERNEL);
 	if (!hub->descriptor) {
@@ -1396,6 +1400,7 @@ static int hub_port_status(struct usb_hub *hub, int port1,
 {
 	int ret;
 
+	mutex_lock(&hub->status_mutex);
 	ret = get_port_status(hub->hdev, port1, &hub->status->port);
 	if (ret < 4) {
 		dev_err (hub->intfdev,
@@ -1407,6 +1412,7 @@ static int hub_port_status(struct usb_hub *hub, int port1,
 		*change = le16_to_cpu(hub->status->port.wPortChange); 
 		ret = 0;
 	}
+	mutex_unlock(&hub->status_mutex);
 	return ret;
 }