tty: Fix close races in USB serial
authorAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Fri, 2 Jan 2009 13:44:04 +0000 (13:44 +0000)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 2 Jan 2009 18:19:37 +0000 (10:19 -0800)
USB serial has always had races where the tty port usage count can hit zero
during a receive event. The internal locking is a mutex so we can't use
that in the IRQ handlers.

With krefs we can tackle this differently but we still need to be careful.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c

index 794b5ffe4397bcfd84f38c3d7affaebac6be77af..aafa684a900facf3ee510efa442468998138b763 100644 (file)
@@ -269,15 +269,19 @@ static void serial_close(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *filp)
                return;
        }
 
-       --port->port.count;
-       if (port->port.count == 0)
+       if (port->port.count == 1)
                /* only call the device specific close if this
-                * port is being closed by the last owner */
+                * port is being closed by the last owner. Ensure we do
+                * this before we drop the port count. The call is protected
+                * by the port mutex
+                */
                port->serial->type->close(tty, port, filp);
 
-       if (port->port.count == (port->console? 1 : 0)) {
+       if (port->port.count == (port->console ? 2 : 1)) {
                struct tty_struct *tty = tty_port_tty_get(&port->port);
                if (tty) {
+                       /* We must do this before we drop the port count to
+                          zero. */
                        if (tty->driver_data)
                                tty->driver_data = NULL;
                        tty_port_tty_set(&port->port, NULL);
@@ -285,13 +289,14 @@ static void serial_close(struct tty_struct *tty, struct file *filp)
                }
        }
 
-       if (port->port.count == 0) {
+       if (port->port.count == 1) {
                mutex_lock(&port->serial->disc_mutex);
                if (!port->serial->disconnected)
                        usb_autopm_put_interface(port->serial->interface);
                mutex_unlock(&port->serial->disc_mutex);
                module_put(port->serial->type->driver.owner);
        }
+       --port->port.count;
 
        mutex_unlock(&port->mutex);
        usb_serial_put(port->serial);