Commit 5395353e authored by Benedikt Spranger's avatar Benedikt Spranger Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

usb-gadget-ether: prevent oops caused by error interrupt race

Fix a longstanding race in the Ethernet gadget driver, which can cause an
oops on device disconnect.  The fix is just to make the TX path check
whether its freelist is empty.  That check is otherwise not necessary,
since the queue is always stopped when that list empties (and restarted
when request completion puts an entry back on that freelist).

The race window starts when the network code decides to transmit a packet,
and ends when hard_start_xmit() grabs the freelist lock.  When disconnect()
is called inside that window, it shuts down the TX queue and breaks the
otherwise-solid assumption that packets are never sent through a TX queue
that's stopped.
Signed-off-by: default avatarBenedikt Spranger <bene@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 9dcfbd97
......@@ -1957,8 +1957,20 @@ static int eth_start_xmit (struct sk_buff *skb, struct net_device *net)
}
spin_lock_irqsave(&dev->req_lock, flags);
/*
* this freelist can be empty if an interrupt triggered disconnect()
* and reconfigured the gadget (shutting down this queue) after the
* network stack decided to xmit but before we got the spinlock.
*/
if (list_empty(&dev->tx_reqs)) {
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->req_lock, flags);
return 1;
}
req = container_of (dev->tx_reqs.next, struct usb_request, list);
list_del (&req->list);
/* temporarily stop TX queue when the freelist empties */
if (list_empty (&dev->tx_reqs))
netif_stop_queue (net);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dev->req_lock, flags);
......
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