regulator: core: fix race condition in regulator_put()

Ashay Jaiswal · broonie · commit 83b0302d347a · 2015-01-08T18:15:35.000Z
The regulator framework maintains a list of consumer regulators
for a regulator device and protects it from concurrent access using
the regulator device's mutex lock.

In the case of regulator_put() the consumer is removed and regulator
device's parameters are updated without holding the regulator device's
mutex. This would lead to a race condition between the regulator_put()
and any function which traverses the consumer list or modifies regulator
device's parameters.
Fix this race condition by holding the regulator device's mutex in case
of regulator_put.

Signed-off-by: Ashay Jaiswal &lt;ashayj@codeaurora.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Mark Brown &lt;broonie@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
diff --git a/drivers/regulator/core.c b/drivers/regulator/core.c
@@ -1488,7 +1488,7 @@ struct regulator *regulator_get_optional(struct device *dev, const char *id)
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(regulator_get_optional);
 
-/* Locks held by regulator_put() */
+/* regulator_list_mutex lock held by regulator_put() */
 static void _regulator_put(struct regulator *regulator)
 {
 	struct regulator_dev *rdev;
@@ -1503,12 +1503,14 @@ static void _regulator_put(struct regulator *regulator)
 	/* remove any sysfs entries */
 	if (regulator->dev)
 		sysfs_remove_link(&rdev->dev.kobj, regulator->supply_name);
+	mutex_lock(&rdev->mutex);
 	kfree(regulator->supply_name);
 	list_del(&regulator->list);
 	kfree(regulator);
 
 	rdev->open_count--;
 	rdev->exclusive = 0;
+	mutex_unlock(&rdev->mutex);
 
 	module_put(rdev->owner);
 }
