[PATCH] USB: usbserial: race-condition fix.

There is a race-condition in usb-serial driver that can be triggered if
a processes does 'port->tty->driver_data = NULL' in serial_close() while
other processes is in kernel-space about to call serial_ioctl() on the
same port.

This happens because a process can open the device while there is
another one closing it.

The patch below fixes that by adding a semaphore to ensure that no
process will open the device while another process is closing it.

Note that we can't use spinlocks here, since serial_open() and
serial_close() can sleep.

Signed-off-by: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.h b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.h
index 238a5a871ed6..d7d27c3385b3 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.h
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.h
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 
 #include <linux/config.h>
 #include <linux/kref.h>
+#include <asm/semaphore.h>
 
 #define SERIAL_TTY_MAJOR	188	/* Nice legal number now */
 #define SERIAL_TTY_MINORS	255	/* loads of devices :) */
@@ -30,6 +31,8 @@
  * @serial: pointer back to the struct usb_serial owner of this port.
  * @tty: pointer to the corresponding tty for this port.
  * @lock: spinlock to grab when updating portions of this structure.
+ * @sem: semaphore used to synchronize serial_open() and serial_close()
+ *	access for this port.
  * @number: the number of the port (the minor number).
  * @interrupt_in_buffer: pointer to the interrupt in buffer for this port.
  * @interrupt_in_urb: pointer to the interrupt in struct urb for this port.
@@ -60,6 +63,7 @@ struct usb_serial_port {
 	struct usb_serial *	serial;
 	struct tty_struct *	tty;
 	spinlock_t		lock;
+	struct semaphore        sem;
 	unsigned char		number;
 
 	unsigned char *		interrupt_in_buffer;