This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
USB: ldusb: fix ring-buffer locking
to my usb git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git in the usb-linus branch.
The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)
The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
From d98ee2a19c3334e9343df3ce254b496f1fc428eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johan Hovold johan@kernel.org Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2019 16:32:02 +0200 Subject: USB: ldusb: fix ring-buffer locking
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 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20191022143203.5260-2-johan@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/usb/misc/ldusb.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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);