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authorAlexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su>2011-01-13 04:00:50 +0300
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-01-13 19:03:19 +0300
commit3003d55b59aa98aeaff2773df69732b27c0cbf6a (patch)
treed7fbadca22907cb90b9e94b283bf8abe6d508c73 /include/linux
parent86d921f9ec06bc3fd357a77877d37a604d5674c3 (diff)
downloadlinux-3003d55b59aa98aeaff2773df69732b27c0cbf6a.tar.xz
pps: fix race in PPS_FETCH handler
There was a race in PPS_FETCH ioctl handler when several processes want to obtain PPS data simultaneously using sleeping PPS_FETCH. They all sleep most of the time in the system call. With the old approach when the first process waiting on the pps queue is waken up it makes new system call right away and zeroes pps->go. So other processes continue to sleep. This is a clear race condition because of the global 'go' variable. With the new approach pps->last_ev holds some value increasing at each PPS event. PPS_FETCH ioctl handler saves current value to the local variable at the very beginning so it can safely check that there is a new event by just comparing both variables. Signed-off-by: Alexander Gordeev <lasaine@lvk.cs.msu.su> Acked-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/pps_kernel.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/pps_kernel.h b/include/linux/pps_kernel.h
index 23f63c3263bb..65194fe498bb 100644
--- a/include/linux/pps_kernel.h
+++ b/include/linux/pps_kernel.h
@@ -55,7 +55,7 @@ struct pps_device {
struct pps_ktime clear_tu;
int current_mode; /* PPS mode at event time */
- int go; /* PPS event is arrived? */
+ unsigned int last_ev; /* last PPS event id */
wait_queue_head_t queue; /* PPS event queue */
unsigned int id; /* PPS source unique ID */