virtio: console: fix race in port_fops_open() and port unplug
authorAmit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Mon, 29 Jul 2013 04:47:13 +0000 (14:17 +0930)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 15 Aug 2013 05:57:06 +0000 (22:57 -0700)
commit9c040cbf67c54c0eb67ebdc0424cfadd3d7a2a7a
tree6420c53f4be2a0d0bd36f878f139ac145ea9808e
parentd0bfaacabec9c87b739c31662eaa96af0d1b404c
virtio: console: fix race in port_fops_open() and port unplug

commit 671bdea2b9f210566610603ecbb6584c8a201c8c upstream.

Between open() being called and processed, the port can be unplugged.
Check if this happened, and bail out.

A simple test script to reproduce this is:

while true; do for i in $(seq 1 100); do echo $i > /dev/vport0p3; done; done;

This opens and closes the port a lot of times; unplugging the port while
this is happening triggers the bug.

Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/char/virtio_console.c