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authorSalah Triki2015-10-04 03:49:48 +0200
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman2015-10-04 10:30:14 +0200
commit51abf45c23872df0a43dbe849eb4439ebda6145f (patch)
treeb89016372e4bbc02e242fbe238181702fc29a2ca /drivers/staging/dgnc
parentstaging: dgnc: remove dgnc_init_globals function (diff)
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staging: dgnc: take a lock when storing value in dgnc_poll_tick
Reads of dgnc_poll_tick are protected by dgnc_poll_lock spinlock, but the write to dgnc_poll_tick is not. It could theoretically race. Signed-off-by: Salah Triki <salah.triki@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/staging/dgnc')
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c2
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.h1
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_sysfs.c9
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c
index ae81a8b1184e..ce2d1c7ed29e 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c
@@ -63,6 +63,7 @@ static const struct file_operations dgnc_BoardFops = {
uint dgnc_NumBoards;
struct dgnc_board *dgnc_Board[MAXBOARDS];
DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dgnc_global_lock);
+DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dgnc_poll_lock); /* Poll scheduling lock */
uint dgnc_Major;
int dgnc_poll_tick = 20; /* Poll interval - 20 ms */
@@ -74,7 +75,6 @@ static struct class *dgnc_class;
/*
* Poller stuff
*/
-static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(dgnc_poll_lock); /* Poll scheduling lock */
static ulong dgnc_poll_time; /* Time of next poll */
static uint dgnc_poll_stop; /* Used to tell poller to stop */
static struct timer_list dgnc_poll_timer;
diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.h b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.h
index 06ece5151fe4..c61884c14777 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.h
+++ b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.h
@@ -390,6 +390,7 @@ struct channel_t {
extern uint dgnc_Major; /* Our driver/mgmt major */
extern int dgnc_poll_tick; /* Poll interval - 20 ms */
extern spinlock_t dgnc_global_lock; /* Driver global spinlock */
+extern spinlock_t dgnc_poll_lock; /* Poll scheduling lock */
extern uint dgnc_NumBoards; /* Total number of boards */
extern struct dgnc_board *dgnc_Board[MAXBOARDS]; /* Array of board structs */
diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_sysfs.c b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_sysfs.c
index 44db8703eba4..48b605678c32 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_sysfs.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_sysfs.c
@@ -56,11 +56,18 @@ static ssize_t dgnc_driver_pollrate_show(struct device_driver *ddp, char *buf)
static ssize_t dgnc_driver_pollrate_store(struct device_driver *ddp,
const char *buf, size_t count)
{
+ unsigned long flags;
+ int tick;
int ret;
- ret = sscanf(buf, "%d\n", &dgnc_poll_tick);
+ ret = sscanf(buf, "%d\n", &tick);
if (ret != 1)
return -EINVAL;
+
+ spin_lock_irqsave(&dgnc_poll_lock, flags);
+ dgnc_poll_tick = tick;
+ spin_unlock_irqrestore(&dgnc_poll_lock, flags);
+
return count;
}
static DRIVER_ATTR(pollrate, (S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR), dgnc_driver_pollrate_show,