USB: legousbtower: fix deadlock on disconnect
authorJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Thu, 19 Sep 2019 08:30:37 +0000 (10:30 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 17 Oct 2019 20:42:40 +0000 (13:42 -0700)
commit686d51a6b7920b4405937cf83f21c2d7bdabc10a
tree3af68a8f90f774e1b1b106851325a3b6af0065ac
parentcaa18238846144b247f0de8c1f57cf4751913c37
USB: legousbtower: fix deadlock on disconnect

commit 33a7813219f208f4952ece60ee255fd983272dec upstream.

Fix a potential deadlock if disconnect races with open.

Since commit d4ead16f50f9 ("USB: prevent char device open/deregister
race") core holds an rw-semaphore while open is called and when
releasing the minor number during deregistration. This can lead to an
ABBA deadlock if a driver takes a lock in open which it also holds
during deregistration.

This effectively reverts commit 78663ecc344b ("USB: disconnect open race
in legousbtower") which needlessly introduced this issue after a generic
fix for this race had been added to core by commit d4ead16f50f9 ("USB:
prevent char device open/deregister race").

Fixes: 78663ecc344b ("USB: disconnect open race in legousbtower")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 2.6.24
Reported-by: syzbot+f9549f5ee8a5416f0b95@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: syzbot+f9549f5ee8a5416f0b95@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190919083039.30898-3-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c