From: Pavel Machek If someone tries to _urb_unlink while _urb_queue_head is running, he'll see _urb->queue == NULL and fail to do any locking. Prevent that from happening by strategically placed barriers. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek Cc: Marcel Holtmann Cc: Dave Young Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- drivers/bluetooth/hci_usb.h | 21 +++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff -puN drivers/bluetooth/hci_usb.h~hci_usbh-fix-hard-to-trigger-race drivers/bluetooth/hci_usb.h --- a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_usb.h~hci_usbh-fix-hard-to-trigger-race +++ a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_usb.h @@ -70,7 +70,8 @@ static inline void _urb_queue_head(struc { unsigned long flags; spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags); - list_add(&_urb->list, &q->head); _urb->queue = q; + /* _urb_unlink needs to know which spinlock to use, thus mb(). */ + _urb->queue = q; mb(); list_add(&_urb->list, &q->head); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags); } @@ -78,19 +79,23 @@ static inline void _urb_queue_tail(struc { unsigned long flags; spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags); - list_add_tail(&_urb->list, &q->head); _urb->queue = q; + /* _urb_unlink needs to know which spinlock to use, thus mb(). */ + _urb->queue = q; mb(); list_add_tail(&_urb->list, &q->head); spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags); } static inline void _urb_unlink(struct _urb *_urb) { - struct _urb_queue *q = _urb->queue; + struct _urb_queue *q; unsigned long flags; - if (q) { - spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags); - list_del(&_urb->list); _urb->queue = NULL; - spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags); - } + + mb(); + q = _urb->queue; + /* If q is NULL, it will die at easy-to-debug NULL pointer dereference. + No need to BUG(). */ + spin_lock_irqsave(&q->lock, flags); + list_del(&_urb->list); _urb->queue = NULL; + spin_unlock_irqrestore(&q->lock, flags); } struct hci_usb { _