3.5.7.19 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me
know.
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From: Amit Shah <amit.s...@redhat.com>
commit 671bdea2b9f210566610603ecbb6584c8a201c8c upstream.
Between open() being called and processed, the port can be unplugged.
Check if this happened, and bail out.
A simple test script to reproduce this is:
while true; do for i in $(seq 1 100); do echo $i > /dev/vport0p3; done; done;
This opens and closes the port a lot of times; unplugging the port while
this is happening triggers the bug.
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.s...@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <ru...@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriq...@canonical.com>
---
drivers/char/virtio_console.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
index 002357f..4ab78e9 100644
--- a/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
+++ b/drivers/char/virtio_console.c
@@ -797,6 +797,10 @@ static int port_fops_open(struct inode *inode, struct file
*filp)
/* We get the port with a kref here */
port = find_port_by_devt(cdev->dev);
+ if (!port) {
+ /* Port was unplugged before we could proceed */
+ return -ENXIO;
+ }
filp->private_data = port;
/*
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1.8.3.2
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