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Stefan Richter authored
In the transmit path of firewire-net (IPv4 over 1394), the following race condition may occur: - The networking soft IRQ inserts a datagram into the 1394 async request transmit DMA. - The 1394 async transmit completion tasklet runs to finish cleaning up (unlink datagram from list of pending ones, release skb and outbound 1394 transaction object) --- before the networking soft IRQ had a chance to proceed and add the datagram to the list of pending datagrams. This caused a panic in the 1394 async transmit completion tasklet when it dereferenced unitialized list heads: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=15077 The fix is to add checks in the tx soft IRQ and in the tasklet to determine which of these two is the last referrer to the transaction object. Then handle the cleanup of the object by the last referrer rather than assuming that the tasklet is always the last one. There is another similar race: Between said tasklet and fwnet_close, i.e. at ifdown. However, that race is much less likely to occur in practice and shall be fixed in a separate update. Reported-by: Илья Басин <basinilya@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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