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SubjectRe: [BUG] hidraw.c: double mutex_lock
On Mon, 12 Oct 2009, iceberg wrote:

> KERNEL_VERSION: 2.6.31
> DESCRIBE:
> In driver ./drivers/hid/hidraw.c in function hidraw_read may be
> double mutex_lock:
>
> Path:
> 1. line 50: begin first iteration of "while(ret==0)"
> 2. line 52: first call to mutex_lock
> 3. inner loop "while (list->head == list->tail)" does not change state
> of mutex, because mutex_lock immediatelly follows mutex_unlock
> 4. if we go to the second iteration of "while(ret == 0)" in
> line 50 then there are second call to mutex_lock in line 52 (mutex
> aquired twice).
>
> Second iteration of loop "while(ret==0)" is possible if local variable
> ret is not changed at line 94: ret+=len - i.e. len==0;
> Variable len may be zero if hidraw_read is called with count==0 or
> list->buffer[list->tail].len == 0.

Good catch. I will fix that up by moving the mutex_lock() so that it's
locked before the loop is entered.

Thanks,

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs, Novell Inc.


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