From: Eugene Shatokhin <redacted>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2015 17:05:33 +0300
The race may happen when a device (e.g. YOTA 4G LTE Modem) is
unplugged while the system is downloading a large file from the Net.
Hardware breakpoints and Kprobes with delays were used to confirm that
the race does actually happen.
The race is on skb_queue ('next' pointer) between usbnet_stop()
and rx_complete(), which, in turn, calls usbnet_bh().
Here is a part of the call stack with the code where the changes to the
queue happen. The line numbers are for the kernel 4.1.0:
...
As a result, it is possible, for example, that the skb is removed from
dev->rxq by __skb_unlink() before the check
"!skb_queue_empty(&dev->rxq)" in usbnet_terminate_urbs() is made. It is
also possible in this case that the skb is added to dev->done queue
after "!skb_queue_empty(&dev->done)" is checked. So
usbnet_terminate_urbs() may stop waiting and return while dev->done
queue still has an item.
Locking in defer_bh() and usbnet_terminate_urbs() was revisited to avoid
this race.
Signed-off-by: Eugene Shatokhin <redacted>
Applied, thanks.