[ Upstream commit 14a0d635d1 ]
This fixes a race which happens by freeing an object on the stack.
Quoting Julius:
> The issue is
> that it calls usbnet_terminate_urbs() before that, which temporarily
> installs a waitqueue in dev->wait in order to be able to wait on the
> tasklet to run and finish up some queues. The waiting itself looks
> okay, but the access to 'dev->wait' is totally unprotected and can
> race arbitrarily. I think in this case usbnet_bh() managed to succeed
> it's dev->wait check just before usbnet_terminate_urbs() sets it back
> to NULL. The latter then finishes and the waitqueue_t structure on its
> stack gets overwritten by other functions halfway through the
> wake_up() call in usbnet_bh().
The fix is to just not allocate the data structure on the stack.
As dev->wait is abused as a flag it also takes a runtime PM change
to fix this bug.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Reported-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@google.com>
Tested-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@google.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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