Pete caused me to lock at buggy drivers in this respect. The idmouse has
a race between open and disconnect. This patch
- solves the open/disconnect race
- switches locking to mutexes
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Oliver Neukumauthored and Greg Kroah-Hartmancommited 2007-10-25 12:18:44 -07:00
This patch (as908) adds central protection in usbcore for the
prototypical race between opening and unregistering a char device.
The spinlock used to protect the minor-numbers array is replaced with
an rwsem, which can remain locked across a call to a driver's open()
method. This guarantees that open() and deregister() will be mutually
exclusive.
The private locks currently used in several individual drivers for
this purpose are no longer necessary, and the patch removes them. The
following USB drivers are affected: usblcd, idmouse, auerswald,
legousbtower, sisusbvga/sisusb, ldusb, adutux, iowarrior, and
usb-skeleton.
As a side effect of this change, usb_deregister_dev() must not be
called while holding a lock that is acquired by open(). Unfortunately
a number of drivers do this, but luckily the solution is simple: call
usb_deregister_dev() before acquiring the lock.
In addition to these changes (and their consequent code
simplifications), the patch fixes a use-after-free bug in adutux and a
race between open() and release() in iowarrior.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Alan Sternauthored and Greg Kroah-Hartmancommited 2007-07-12 16:29:48 -07:00
Remove includes of <linux/smp_lock.h> where it is not used/needed.
Suggested by Al Viro.
Builds cleanly on x86_64, i386, alpha, ia64, powerpc, sparc,
sparc64, and arm (all 59 defconfigs).
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Randy Dunlapauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2007-05-08 11:15:07 -07:00
The patch removes unneeded void * casts for the following (void *) pointers:
- struct file: private_data
The patch also contains some whitespace and coding style cleanups in the
relevant areas.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Tobias Klauserauthored and Greg Kroah-Hartmancommited 2007-02-07 15:44:32 -08:00
Just digging through code and found these needless variable initializations. So here is the patch.
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Mariusz Kozlowskiauthored and Greg Kroah-Hartmancommited 2006-12-01 14:23:37 -08:00
Making structs const prevents accidental bugs and with the proper debug
options they're protected against corruption.
Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulinoauthored and Greg Kroah-Hartmancommited 2006-09-27 11:58:52 -07:00
the patch below converts a bunch of semaphores-used-as-mutex in the USB
code to mutexes
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Arjan van de Venauthored and Greg Kroah-Hartmancommited 2006-03-20 14:49:55 -08:00
switched to simple_read_from_buffer(), killed broken use of min().
Incidentally, that use of min() had been fixed once, only to be
reintroduced in commit 4244f72436:
[PATCH] USB: upgrade of the idmouse driver
[snip]
- if (count > IMGSIZE - *ppos)
- count = IMGSIZE - *ppos;
+ count = min ((loff_t)count, IMGSIZE - (*ppos));
Note the lovely use of cast to shut the warning about misuse of min()
up...
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Al Viroauthored and Linus Torvaldscommited 2005-10-29 10:35:08 -07:00
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.
Let it rip!
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