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authorLaurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@skynet.be>2008-07-11 19:32:15 -0300
committerMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>2008-07-20 07:19:31 -0300
commita9e285856112e5e721b6a341d15437a164128b30 (patch)
tree23b1dab5ebf87625e037eb0d6d09dc7a5d7add1c /drivers/media
parent6f80e1b4cda7e184e369c84a8b388882b0233d53 (diff)
V4L/DVB (8257): uvcvideo: Fix possible AB-BA deadlock with videodev_lock and open_mutex
The uvcvideo driver's uvc_v4l2_open() method is called from videodev's video_open() function, which means it is called with the videodev_lock mutex held. uvc_v4l2_open() then takes uvc_driver.open_mutex to check dev->state and avoid racing against a device disconnect, which means that open_mutex must nest inside videodev_lock. However uvc_disconnect() takes the open_mutex around setting dev->state and also around putting its device reference. However, if uvc_disconnect() ends up dropping the last reference, it will call uvc_delete(), which calls into the videodev code to unregister its device, and this will end up taking videodev_lock. This opens a (unlikely in practice) window for an AB-BA deadlock and also causes a lockdep warning because of the lock misordering. Fortunately there is no apparent reason to hold open_mutex when doing kref_put() in uvc_disconnect(): if uvc_v4l2_open() runs before the state is set to UVC_DEV_DISCONNECTED, then it will take another reference to the device and kref_put() won't call uvc_delete; if uvc_v4l2_open() runs after the state is set, it will run before uvc_delete(), see the state, and return immediately -- uvc_delete() does uvc_unregister_video() (and hence video_unregister_device(), which is synchronized with videodev_lock) as its first thing, so there is no risk of use-after-free in uvc_v4l2_open(). Bug diagnosed based on a lockdep warning reported by Romano Giannetti <romano@dea.icai.upcomillas.es>. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@digitalvampire.org> Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@skynet.be> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/media')
-rw-r--r--drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_driver.c9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_driver.c b/drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_driver.c
index 4deb04bc2a7..f2b2983fe06 100644
--- a/drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_driver.c
+++ b/drivers/media/video/uvc/uvc_driver.c
@@ -1633,13 +1633,16 @@ static void uvc_disconnect(struct usb_interface *intf)
* reference to the uvc_device instance after uvc_v4l2_open() received
* the pointer to the device (video_devdata) but before it got the
* chance to increase the reference count (kref_get).
+ *
+ * Note that the reference can't be released with the lock held,
+ * otherwise a AB-BA deadlock can occur with videodev_lock that
+ * videodev acquires in videodev_open() and video_unregister_device().
*/
mutex_lock(&uvc_driver.open_mutex);
-
dev->state |= UVC_DEV_DISCONNECTED;
- kref_put(&dev->kref, uvc_delete);
-
mutex_unlock(&uvc_driver.open_mutex);
+
+ kref_put(&dev->kref, uvc_delete);
}
static int uvc_suspend(struct usb_interface *intf, pm_message_t message)