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Oliver Neukum
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This fixes a race which happens by freeing an object on the stack. Quoting Julius: > The issue is > that it calls usbnet_terminate_urbs() before that, which temporarily > installs a waitqueue in dev->wait in order to be able to wait on the > tasklet to run and finish up some queues. The waiting itself looks > okay, but the access to 'dev->wait' is totally unprotected and can > race arbitrarily. I think in this case usbnet_bh() managed to succeed > it's dev->wait check just before usbnet_terminate_urbs() sets it back > to NULL. The latter then finishes and the waitqueue_t structure on its > stack gets overwritten by other functions halfway through the > wake_up() call in usbnet_bh(). The fix is to just not allocate the data structure on the stack. As dev->wait is abused as a flag it also takes a runtime PM change to fix this bug. Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <[email protected]> Reported-by: Grant Grundler <[email protected]> Tested-by: Grant Grundler <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]>