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authorAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>2010-02-17 10:13:42 +0000
committerLeann Ogasawara <leann.ogasawara@canonical.com>2011-08-30 10:14:37 -0700
commit4b40b0aa7a3663961b155d145a75687a17f6136f (patch)
tree2e800fa952339a98f5db3d5289eb34242ef850db /drivers
parent65142f099dc5042b2a0cd1519b3c1b1334e77d8e (diff)
UBUNTU: SAUCE: khubd -- switch USB product/manufacturer/serial handling to RCU
BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/510937 With the introduction of wireless USB hubs the product, manufacturer, and serial number are now mutable. This necessitates new locking in the consumers of these values including the sysfs read routines in order to prevent use-after-free acces to these values. These extra locks create significant lock contention leading to increased boot times (0.3s for an example Atom based system). Move update of these values to RCU based locking. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/core/hub.c34
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c6
2 files changed, 31 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
index a428aa080a3..92977077eb3 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
@@ -24,6 +24,7 @@
#include <linux/kthread.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/freezer.h>
+#include <linux/rcupdate.h>
#include <asm/uaccess.h>
#include <asm/byteorder.h>
@@ -1931,6 +1932,10 @@ fail:
*/
int usb_deauthorize_device(struct usb_device *usb_dev)
{
+ char *product = NULL;
+ char *manufacturer = NULL;
+ char *serial = NULL;
+
usb_lock_device(usb_dev);
if (usb_dev->authorized == 0)
goto out_unauthorized;
@@ -1938,11 +1943,12 @@ int usb_deauthorize_device(struct usb_device *usb_dev)
usb_dev->authorized = 0;
usb_set_configuration(usb_dev, -1);
- kfree(usb_dev->product);
+ product = usb_dev->product;
+ manufacturer = usb_dev->manufacturer;
+ serial = usb_dev->serial;
+
usb_dev->product = kstrdup("n/a (unauthorized)", GFP_KERNEL);
- kfree(usb_dev->manufacturer);
usb_dev->manufacturer = kstrdup("n/a (unauthorized)", GFP_KERNEL);
- kfree(usb_dev->serial);
usb_dev->serial = kstrdup("n/a (unauthorized)", GFP_KERNEL);
usb_destroy_configuration(usb_dev);
@@ -1950,6 +1956,12 @@ int usb_deauthorize_device(struct usb_device *usb_dev)
out_unauthorized:
usb_unlock_device(usb_dev);
+ if (product || manufacturer || serial) {
+ synchronize_rcu();
+ kfree(product);
+ kfree(manufacturer);
+ kfree(serial);
+ }
return 0;
}
@@ -1957,6 +1969,9 @@ out_unauthorized:
int usb_authorize_device(struct usb_device *usb_dev)
{
int result = 0, c;
+ char *product = NULL;
+ char *manufacturer = NULL;
+ char *serial = NULL;
usb_lock_device(usb_dev);
if (usb_dev->authorized == 1)
@@ -1975,11 +1990,12 @@ int usb_authorize_device(struct usb_device *usb_dev)
goto error_device_descriptor;
}
- kfree(usb_dev->product);
+ product = usb_dev->product;
+ manufacturer = usb_dev->manufacturer;
+ serial = usb_dev->serial;
+
usb_dev->product = NULL;
- kfree(usb_dev->manufacturer);
usb_dev->manufacturer = NULL;
- kfree(usb_dev->serial);
usb_dev->serial = NULL;
usb_dev->authorized = 1;
@@ -2007,6 +2023,12 @@ error_device_descriptor:
error_autoresume:
out_authorized:
usb_unlock_device(usb_dev); // complements locktree
+ if (product || manufacturer || serial) {
+ synchronize_rcu();
+ kfree(product);
+ kfree(manufacturer);
+ kfree(serial);
+ }
return result;
}
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c b/drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c
index cf05b97693e..221e04c7f72 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c
@@ -85,9 +85,9 @@ static ssize_t show_##name(struct device *dev, \
int retval; \
\
udev = to_usb_device(dev); \
- usb_lock_device(udev); \
- retval = sprintf(buf, "%s\n", udev->name); \
- usb_unlock_device(udev); \
+ rcu_read_lock(); \
+ retval = sprintf(buf, "%s\n", rcu_dereference(udev->name)); \
+ rcu_read_unlock(); \
return retval; \
} \
static DEVICE_ATTR(name, S_IRUGO, show_##name, NULL);