libata: Fix a potential race condition in ata_scsi_park_show()

EOltmanns · Jeff Garzik · commit a464189de350 · 2008-11-04T01:08:24.000-05:00
Peter Moulder has pointed out that there is a slight chance that a
negative value might be passed to jiffies_to_msecs() in
ata_scsi_park_show(). This is fixed by saving the value of jiffies in a
local variable, thus also reducing code since the volatile variable
jiffies is accessed only once.

Signed-off-by: Elias Oltmanns &lt;eo@nebensachen.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo &lt;tj.kernel.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
diff --git a/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c b/drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ static ssize_t ata_scsi_park_show(struct device *device,
 	struct ata_port *ap;
 	struct ata_link *link;
 	struct ata_device *dev;
-	unsigned long flags;
+	unsigned long flags, now;
 	unsigned int uninitialized_var(msecs);
 	int rc = 0;
 
@@ -208,10 +208,11 @@ static ssize_t ata_scsi_park_show(struct device *device,
 	}
 
 	link = dev->link;
+	now = jiffies;
 	if (ap->pflags & ATA_PFLAG_EH_IN_PROGRESS &&
 	    link->eh_context.unloaded_mask & (1 << dev->devno) &&
-	    time_after(dev->unpark_deadline, jiffies))
-		msecs = jiffies_to_msecs(dev->unpark_deadline - jiffies);
+	    time_after(dev->unpark_deadline, now))
+		msecs = jiffies_to_msecs(dev->unpark_deadline - now);
 	else
 		msecs = 0;
 
