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Commit 8a4613f0 authored by Luiz Fernando Capitulino's avatar Luiz Fernando Capitulino Committed by Greg Kroah-Hartman
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[PATCH] USB: usbserial: race-condition fix.



There is a race-condition in usb-serial driver that can be triggered if
a processes does 'port->tty->driver_data = NULL' in serial_close() while
other processes is in kernel-space about to call serial_ioctl() on the
same port.

This happens because a process can open the device while there is
another one closing it.

The patch below fixes that by adding a semaphore to ensure that no
process will open the device while another process is closing it.

Note that we can't use spinlocks here, since serial_open() and
serial_close() can sleep.

Signed-off-by: default avatarLuiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
parent 487f9c67
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