regulator: core: fix race condition in regulator_put()
authorAshay Jaiswal <ashayj@codeaurora.org>
Thu, 8 Jan 2015 13:24:25 +0000 (18:54 +0530)
committerMark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Thu, 8 Jan 2015 18:15:35 +0000 (18:15 +0000)
commit83b0302d347a49f951e904184afe57ac3723476e
treecf10bcad7c2f9915f436667256eea67bb3f35ddd
parent97bf6af1f928216fd6c5a66e8a57bfa95a659672
regulator: core: fix race condition in regulator_put()

The regulator framework maintains a list of consumer regulators
for a regulator device and protects it from concurrent access using
the regulator device's mutex lock.

In the case of regulator_put() the consumer is removed and regulator
device's parameters are updated without holding the regulator device's
mutex. This would lead to a race condition between the regulator_put()
and any function which traverses the consumer list or modifies regulator
device's parameters.
Fix this race condition by holding the regulator device's mutex in case
of regulator_put.

Signed-off-by: Ashay Jaiswal <ashayj@codeaurora.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie@kernel.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
drivers/regulator/core.c