Re: [PATCH] USB Fixes for 2.6.0-test11

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Dec 10 2003 - 20:54:53 EST


ChangeSet 1.1522, 2003/12/09 10:18:07-08:00, oliver@xxxxxxxxxx

[PATCH] USB: fix race with signal delivery in usbfs

apart from locking bugs, there are other races. This fixes one with
signal delivery. The signal should be delivered _before_ the reciever
is woken.


drivers/usb/core/devio.c | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)


diff -Nru a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c
--- a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c Wed Dec 10 16:47:18 2003
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c Wed Dec 10 16:47:18 2003
@@ -261,7 +261,6 @@
spin_lock(&ps->lock);
list_move_tail(&as->asynclist, &ps->async_completed);
spin_unlock(&ps->lock);
- wake_up(&ps->wait);
if (as->signr) {
sinfo.si_signo = as->signr;
sinfo.si_errno = as->urb->status;
@@ -269,6 +268,7 @@
sinfo.si_addr = (void *)as->userurb;
send_sig_info(as->signr, &sinfo, as->task);
}
+ wake_up(&ps->wait);
}

static void destroy_async (struct dev_state *ps, struct list_head *list)

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