From: Serge Hallyn <serge.hal...@canonical.com>
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This is a commit scheduled for the next v2.6.34 longterm release.
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulg/longterm-queue-2.6.34.git
If you see a problem with using this for longterm, please comment.
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commit aec01c5895051849ed842dc5b8794017a7751f28 upstream.
Alan Stern points out that after spin_unlock(&ps->lock) there is no
guarantee that ps->pid won't be freed. Since kill_pid_info_as_uid() is
called after the spin_unlock(), the pid passed to it must be pinned.
Reported-by: Alan Stern <st...@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Serge Hallyn <serge.hal...@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gre...@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortma...@windriver.com>
---
drivers/usb/core/devio.c | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
index 6088192..85a4967 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
@@ -409,7 +409,7 @@ static void async_completed(struct urb *urb)
sinfo.si_errno = as->status;
sinfo.si_code = SI_ASYNCIO;
sinfo.si_addr = as->userurb;
- pid = as->pid;
+ pid = get_pid(as->pid);
uid = as->uid;
euid = as->euid;
secid = as->secid;
@@ -424,9 +424,11 @@ static void async_completed(struct urb *urb)
cancel_bulk_urbs(ps, as->bulk_addr);
spin_unlock(&ps->lock);
- if (signr)
+ if (signr) {
kill_pid_info_as_uid(sinfo.si_signo, &sinfo, pid, uid,
euid, secid);
+ put_pid(pid);
+ }
wake_up(&ps->wait);
}
--
1.7.12.rc2
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