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[1/2] USB: ldusb: fix ring-buffer locking

Message ID 20191022143203.5260-2-johan@kernel.org (mailing list archive)
State Mainlined
Commit d98ee2a19c3334e9343df3ce254b496f1fc428eb
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Series USB: ldusb: fix ring-buffer locking | expand

Commit Message

Johan Hovold Oct. 22, 2019, 2:32 p.m. UTC
The custom ring-buffer implementation was merged without any locking or
explicit memory barriers, but a spinlock was later added by commit
9d33efd9a791 ("USB: ldusb bugfix").

The lock did not cover the update of the tail index once the entry had
been processed, something which could lead to memory corruption on
weakly ordered architectures or due to compiler optimisations.

Specifically, a completion handler running on another CPU might observe
the incremented tail index and update the entry before ld_usb_read() is
done with it.

Fixes: 2824bd250f0b ("[PATCH] USB: add ldusb driver")
Fixes: 9d33efd9a791 ("USB: ldusb bugfix")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>     # 2.6.13
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
---
 drivers/usb/misc/ldusb.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/drivers/usb/misc/ldusb.c b/drivers/usb/misc/ldusb.c
index 15b5f06fb0b3..c3e764909fd0 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/misc/ldusb.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/misc/ldusb.c
@@ -495,11 +495,11 @@  static ssize_t ld_usb_read(struct file *file, char __user *buffer, size_t count,
 		retval = -EFAULT;
 		goto unlock_exit;
 	}
-	dev->ring_tail = (dev->ring_tail+1) % ring_buffer_size;
-
 	retval = bytes_to_read;
 
 	spin_lock_irq(&dev->rbsl);
+	dev->ring_tail = (dev->ring_tail + 1) % ring_buffer_size;
+
 	if (dev->buffer_overflow) {
 		dev->buffer_overflow = 0;
 		spin_unlock_irq(&dev->rbsl);