hvc: ensure hvc_init is only ever called once in hvc_console.c
authorPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Tue, 14 Jan 2014 21:03:37 +0000 (16:03 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 13 Feb 2014 18:41:47 +0000 (10:41 -0800)
commitf76a1cbed18c86e2d192455f0daebb48458965f3
tree6372a788551489c9fc68dfb82627c1970bdde4b1
parent9be16b38cf43181efc12ee6f467aaf222ad31b03
hvc: ensure hvc_init is only ever called once in hvc_console.c

Commit 3e6c6f630a5282df8f3393a59f10eb9c56536d23 ("Delay creation of
khcvd thread") moved the call of hvc_init from being a device_initcall
into hvc_alloc, and used a non-null hvc_driver as indication of whether
hvc_init had already been called.

The problem with this is that hvc_driver is only assigned a value
at the bottom of hvc_init, and so there is a window where multiple
hvc_alloc calls can be in progress at the same time and hence try
and call hvc_init multiple times.  Previously the use of device_init
guaranteed that hvc_init was only called once.

This manifests itself as sporadic instances of two hvc_init calls
racing each other, and with the loser of the race getting -EBUSY
from tty_register_driver() and hence that virtual console fails:

    Couldn't register hvc console driver
    virtio-ports vport0p1: error -16 allocating hvc for port

Here we add an atomic_t to guarantee we'll never run hvc_init twice.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.24+
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fixes: 3e6c6f630a52 ("Delay creation of khcvd thread")
Reported-by: Jim Somerville <Jim.Somerville@windriver.com>
Tested-by: Jim Somerville <Jim.Somerville@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c