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)
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Mon, 29 Jul 2013 05:13:55 +0000 (14:43 +0930)
commit671bdea2b9f210566610603ecbb6584c8a201c8c
tree9fcd2e27784b670fd474487eb3c2707ba88ec804
parent057b82be3ca3d066478e43b162fc082930a746c9
virtio: console: fix race in port_fops_open() and port unplug

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.

CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
drivers/char/virtio_console.c