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authorDmitry Adamushko <dmitry.adamushko@gmail.com>2007-05-08 00:27:31 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-05-08 11:15:05 -0700
commitd2d9433a4c84c9e7ed78d633fdbffb35d5afda17 (patch)
tree5a9fb2c9531bec148f21fc499d49493b5576e79c /kernel
parentc467a388ae9f236c039d4d0f4c4be07c7deebe97 (diff)
kernel/irq/proc.c: unprotected iteration over the IRQ action list in name_unique()
setup_irq() releases a desc->lock before calling register_handler_proc(), so the iteration over the IRQ action list is not protected. (akpm: the check itself is still racy, but at least it probably won't oops now). Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
-rw-r--r--kernel/irq/proc.c15
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/irq/proc.c b/kernel/irq/proc.c
index 2db91eb54ad..ddde0ef9ccd 100644
--- a/kernel/irq/proc.c
+++ b/kernel/irq/proc.c
@@ -66,12 +66,19 @@ static int name_unique(unsigned int irq, struct irqaction *new_action)
{
struct irq_desc *desc = irq_desc + irq;
struct irqaction *action;
+ unsigned long flags;
+ int ret = 1;
- for (action = desc->action ; action; action = action->next)
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&desc->lock, flags);
+ for (action = desc->action ; action; action = action->next) {
if ((action != new_action) && action->name &&
- !strcmp(new_action->name, action->name))
- return 0;
- return 1;
+ !strcmp(new_action->name, action->name)) {
+ ret = 0;
+ break;
+ }
+ }
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&desc->lock, flags);
+ return ret;
}
void register_handler_proc(unsigned int irq, struct irqaction *action)