On Thu, 2013-11-14 at 10:03 +0800, wangbiao wrote:
> From: wang, biao <biao.w...@intel.com>
> Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2013 10:23:40 +0800
> Subject: [PATCH] usbnet: fix race condition caused spinlock bad magic issue
>
> there is race between usbnet_terminate_urbs and usbnet_bh.
> for example:
> cpu 0 cpu 1
> usbnet_suspend
> usbnet_bh { ->usbnet_terminate_urbs {
> dev->wait = &unlink_wakeup;
> while(....){..}//break
> if(dev->wait) is true
> dev->wait=NULL
> }//unlink_wakeup is invalid
> __wake_up(dev->wait)//garbage value
> }
>
> the race is due to unprotection of dev->wait, so this patch involves a
> spinlock to avoid it.
>
> Signed-off-by: wang, biao <biao.w...@intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Zhang, Di <di.zh...@intel.com>
Acked-by: Oliver Neukum <oli...@neukum.org>
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