Commit ccf40d62 authored by Duncan Sands's avatar Duncan Sands Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

usbatm: fix tiny race

If usbatm_do_heavy_init finishes before usbatm_heavy_init
writes the pid, the disconnect method could shoot down the
wrong process if the pid has been recycled.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDuncan Sands <baldrick@free.fr>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent e4a20daa
......@@ -1001,6 +1001,7 @@ static int usbatm_do_heavy_init(void *arg)
daemonize(instance->driver->driver_name);
allow_signal(SIGTERM);
instance->thread_pid = get_current()->pid;
complete(&instance->thread_started);
......@@ -1025,10 +1026,6 @@ static int usbatm_heavy_init(struct usbatm_data *instance)
return ret;
}
mutex_lock(&instance->serialize);
instance->thread_pid = ret;
mutex_unlock(&instance->serialize);
wait_for_completion(&instance->thread_started);
return 0;
......
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