Commit d31fff8c authored by Sean Young's avatar Sean Young Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman

rc-core: race condition during ir_raw_event_register()

commit 963761a0 upstream.

A rc device can call ir_raw_event_handle() after rc_allocate_device(),
but before rc_register_device() has completed. This is racey because
rcdev->raw is set before rcdev->raw->thread has a valid value.
Reported-by: default avatarkbuild test robot <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSean Young <sean@mess.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
parent d9f48c46
......@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ir_raw_event_set_idle);
*/
void ir_raw_event_handle(struct rc_dev *dev)
{
if (!dev->raw)
if (!dev->raw || !dev->raw->thread)
return;
wake_up_process(dev->raw->thread);
......@@ -490,6 +490,7 @@ int ir_raw_event_register(struct rc_dev *dev)
{
int rc;
struct ir_raw_handler *handler;
struct task_struct *thread;
if (!dev)
return -EINVAL;
......@@ -507,13 +508,15 @@ int ir_raw_event_register(struct rc_dev *dev)
* because the event is coming from userspace
*/
if (dev->driver_type != RC_DRIVER_IR_RAW_TX) {
dev->raw->thread = kthread_run(ir_raw_event_thread, dev->raw,
"rc%u", dev->minor);
thread = kthread_run(ir_raw_event_thread, dev->raw, "rc%u",
dev->minor);
if (IS_ERR(dev->raw->thread)) {
rc = PTR_ERR(dev->raw->thread);
if (IS_ERR(thread)) {
rc = PTR_ERR(thread);
goto out;
}
dev->raw->thread = thread;
}
mutex_lock(&ir_raw_handler_lock);
......
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