can: gs_usb: change active_channels's type from atomic_t to u8
authorVincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr>
Mon, 14 Feb 2022 23:48:14 +0000 (08:48 +0900)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Tue, 8 Mar 2022 18:07:49 +0000 (19:07 +0100)
commitd59120a48997650b95f5266b39baf6d91807111b
tree8b034c0ef41f059cbe87845a1a311439dcb86c57
parentbc653724929c05f6fe283228f382681ab31795ef
can: gs_usb: change active_channels's type from atomic_t to u8

commit 035b0fcf02707d3c9c2890dc1484b11aa5335eb1 upstream.

The driver uses an atomic_t variable: gs_usb:active_channels to keep
track of the number of opened channels in order to only allocate
memory for the URBs when this count changes from zero to one.

However, the driver does not decrement the counter when an error
occurs in gs_can_open(). This issue is fixed by changing the type from
atomic_t to u8 and by simplifying the logic accordingly.

It is safe to use an u8 here because the network stack big kernel lock
(a.k.a. rtnl_mutex) is being hold. For details, please refer to [1].

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-can/CAMZ6Rq+sHpiw34ijPsmp7vbUpDtJwvVtdV7CvRZJsLixjAFfrg@mail.gmail.com/T/#t

Fixes: d08e973a77d1 ("can: gs_usb: Added support for the GS_USB CAN devices")
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220214234814.1321599-1-mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr
Signed-off-by: Vincent Mailhol <mailhol.vincent@wanadoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/net/can/usb/gs_usb.c