From d0981a1b21a03866c8da7f44e35e389c2e0d6061 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 11:26:09 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] clocksource: Protect the watchdog rating changes with clocksource_mutex Martin pointed out that commit 6ea41d2529 (clocksource: Call clocksource_change_rating() outside of watchdog_lock) has a theoretical reference count problem. The calls to clocksource_change_rating() are now done outside of the clocksource mutex and outside of the watchdog lock. A concurrent clocksource_unregister() could remove the clock. Split out the code which changes the rating from clocksource_change_rating() into __clocksource_change_rating(). Protect the clocksource_watchdog_work() code sequence with the clocksource_mutex() and call __clocksource_change_rating(). LKML-Reference: Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Martin Schwidefsky --- kernel/time/clocksource.c | 18 +++++++++++++----- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c index 02dc22d888fe..c6bff11f7957 100644 --- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c +++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c @@ -131,6 +131,7 @@ static cycle_t watchdog_last; static int watchdog_running; static void clocksource_watchdog_work(struct work_struct *work); +static void __clocksource_change_rating(struct clocksource *cs, int rating); /* * Interval: 0.5sec Threshold: 0.0625s @@ -309,6 +310,7 @@ static void clocksource_watchdog_work(struct work_struct *work) unsigned long flags; LIST_HEAD(unstable); + mutex_lock(&clocksource_mutex); spin_lock_irqsave(&watchdog_lock, flags); list_for_each_entry_safe(cs, tmp, &watchdog_list, wd_list) if (cs->flags & CLOCK_SOURCE_UNSTABLE) { @@ -322,8 +324,9 @@ static void clocksource_watchdog_work(struct work_struct *work) /* Needs to be done outside of watchdog lock */ list_for_each_entry_safe(cs, tmp, &unstable, wd_list) { list_del_init(&cs->wd_list); - clocksource_change_rating(cs, 0); + __clocksource_change_rating(cs, 0); } + mutex_unlock(&clocksource_mutex); } #else /* CONFIG_CLOCKSOURCE_WATCHDOG */ @@ -470,16 +473,21 @@ int clocksource_register(struct clocksource *cs) } EXPORT_SYMBOL(clocksource_register); +static void __clocksource_change_rating(struct clocksource *cs, int rating) +{ + list_del(&cs->list); + cs->rating = rating; + clocksource_enqueue(cs); + clocksource_select(); +} + /** * clocksource_change_rating - Change the rating of a registered clocksource */ void clocksource_change_rating(struct clocksource *cs, int rating) { mutex_lock(&clocksource_mutex); - list_del(&cs->list); - cs->rating = rating; - clocksource_enqueue(cs); - clocksource_select(); + __clocksource_change_rating(cs, rating); mutex_unlock(&clocksource_mutex); } EXPORT_SYMBOL(clocksource_change_rating); -- 2.20.1