[PATCH v4 4/6] hw_random: fix unregister race.

Amos Kong
Mon, 03 Nov 2014 15:56:24 -0000

The previous patch added one potential problem: we can still be
reading from a hwrng when it's unregistered.  Add a wait for zero
in the hwrng_unregister path.

v4: add cleanup_done flag to insure that cleanup is done

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Amos Kong <akong at redhat.com>
---
 drivers/char/hw_random/core.c | 8 ++++++++
 include/linux/hw_random.h     | 1 +
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
index 27ad6b4..c31bf91 100644
--- a/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
+++ b/drivers/char/hw_random/core.c
@@ -60,6 +60,7 @@ static DEFINE_MUTEX(rng_mutex);
 static DEFINE_MUTEX(reading_mutex);
 static int data_avail;
 static u8 *rng_buffer, *rng_fillbuf;
+static DECLARE_WAIT_QUEUE_HEAD(rng_done);
 static unsigned short current_quality;
 static unsigned short default_quality; /* = 0; default to "off" */

@@ -98,6 +99,8 @@ static inline void cleanup_rng(struct kref *kref)

 	if (rng->cleanup)
 		rng->cleanup(rng);
+	rng->cleanup_done = true;
+	wake_up_all(&rng_done);
 }

 static void set_current_rng(struct hwrng *rng)
@@ -536,6 +539,11 @@ void hwrng_unregister(struct hwrng *rng)
 			kthread_stop(hwrng_fill);
 	} else
 		mutex_unlock(&rng_mutex);
+
+	/* Just in case rng is reading right now, wait. */
+	wait_event(rng_done, rng->cleanup_done &&
+		   atomic_read(&rng->ref.refcount) == 0);
+
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(hwrng_unregister);

diff --git a/include/linux/hw_random.h b/include/linux/hw_random.h
index c212e71..7832e50 100644
--- a/include/linux/hw_random.h
+++ b/include/linux/hw_random.h
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ struct hwrng {
 	/* internal. */
 	struct list_head list;
 	struct kref ref;
+	bool cleanup_done;
 };

 /** Register a new Hardware Random Number Generator driver. */
--
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