Protect access to fore200e->available_cell_rate with rate_mtx lock in the error handling path of fore200e_open() to prevent a data race.
The field fore200e->available_cell_rate is a shared resource used to track available bandwidth. It is concurrently accessed by fore200e_open(), fore200e_close(), and fore200e_change_qos().
In fore200e_open(), the lock rate_mtx is correctly held when subtracting vcc->qos.txtp.max_pcr from available_cell_rate to reserve bandwidth. However, if the subsequent call to fore200e_activate_vcin() fails, the function restores the reserved bandwidth by adding back to available_cell_rate without holding the lock.
This introduces a race condition because available_cell_rate is a global device resource shared across all VCCs. If the error path in fore200e_open() executes concurrently with operations like fore200e_close() or fore200e_change_qos() on other VCCs, a read-modify-write race occurs.
Specifically, the error path reads the rate without the lock. If another CPU acquires the lock and modifies the rate (e.g., releasing bandwidth in fore200e_close()) between this read and the subsequent write, the error path will overwrite the concurrent update with a stale value. This results in incorrect bandwidth accounting.
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Gui-Dong Han hanguidong02@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Simon Horman horms@kernel.org --- v3: * Expanded the commit message to describe the specific call paths causing the race, as suggested by Jakub Kicinski and Paolo Abeni. v2: * Added a description of the data race hazard in fore200e_open(), as suggested by Jakub Kicinski and Simon Horman. --- drivers/atm/fore200e.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/atm/fore200e.c b/drivers/atm/fore200e.c index 4fea1149e003..f62e38571440 100644 --- a/drivers/atm/fore200e.c +++ b/drivers/atm/fore200e.c @@ -1374,7 +1374,9 @@ fore200e_open(struct atm_vcc *vcc)
vcc->dev_data = NULL;
+ mutex_lock(&fore200e->rate_mtx); fore200e->available_cell_rate += vcc->qos.txtp.max_pcr; + mutex_unlock(&fore200e->rate_mtx);
kfree(fore200e_vcc); return -EINVAL;
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