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USB: legousbtower: fix deadlock on disconnect
authorJohan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Thu, 19 Sep 2019 08:30:37 +0000 (10:30 +0200)
committerStefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Tue, 12 Nov 2019 18:04:35 +0000 (19:04 +0100)
commite0ebacae4ce4a32d9d707e70efffade4790f7bcc
treec4f42799ba9f744d07b727dcb659e6ff5c8e48b2
parenteaf3b16fcc0534dc43e4142b9691bee24893e166
USB: legousbtower: fix deadlock on disconnect

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1850541
commit 33a7813219f208f4952ece60ee255fd983272dec upstream.

Fix a potential deadlock if disconnect races with open.

Since commit d4ead16f50f9 ("USB: prevent char device open/deregister
race") core holds an rw-semaphore while open is called and when
releasing the minor number during deregistration. This can lead to an
ABBA deadlock if a driver takes a lock in open which it also holds
during deregistration.

This effectively reverts commit 78663ecc344b ("USB: disconnect open race
in legousbtower") which needlessly introduced this issue after a generic
fix for this race had been added to core by commit d4ead16f50f9 ("USB:
prevent char device open/deregister race").

Fixes: 78663ecc344b ("USB: disconnect open race in legousbtower")
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 2.6.24
Reported-by: syzbot+f9549f5ee8a5416f0b95@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Tested-by: syzbot+f9549f5ee8a5416f0b95@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190919083039.30898-3-johan@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Kleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
drivers/usb/misc/legousbtower.c