wusbcore: clean up list locking in urb enqueue

wa_urb_enqueue_run locks and unlocks its list lock as it traverses the
list of queued transfers.  This was done to prevent deadlocking due to
acquiring locks in reverse order in different places.  The problem is that
releasing the lock during the list traversal could allow the dequeue
routine to corrupt the list while it is being iterated over.  This patch
moves all list entries to a temp list while holding the list lock, then
traverses the temp list with no lock held.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Pugliese <thomas.pugliese@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/usb/wusbcore/wa-xfer.c b/drivers/usb/wusbcore/wa-xfer.c
index 16968c8..f5c81af 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/wusbcore/wa-xfer.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/wusbcore/wa-xfer.c
@@ -928,7 +928,7 @@ static void wa_xfer_delayed_run(struct wa_rpipe *rpipe)
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&rpipe->seg_lock, flags);
 	while (atomic_read(&rpipe->segs_available) > 0
 	      && !list_empty(&rpipe->seg_list)) {
-		seg = list_entry(rpipe->seg_list.next, struct wa_seg,
+		seg = list_first_entry(&(rpipe->seg_list), struct wa_seg,
 				 list_node);
 		list_del(&seg->list_node);
 		xfer = seg->xfer;
@@ -1093,30 +1093,35 @@ error_xfer_submit:
  *
  * We need to be careful here, as dequeue() could be called in the
  * middle.  That's why we do the whole thing under the
- * wa->xfer_list_lock. If dequeue() jumps in, it first locks urb->lock
+ * wa->xfer_list_lock. If dequeue() jumps in, it first locks xfer->lock
  * and then checks the list -- so as we would be acquiring in inverse
- * order, we just drop the lock once we have the xfer and reacquire it
- * later.
+ * order, we move the delayed list to a separate list while locked and then
+ * submit them without the list lock held.
  */
 void wa_urb_enqueue_run(struct work_struct *ws)
 {
 	struct wahc *wa = container_of(ws, struct wahc, xfer_work);
 	struct wa_xfer *xfer, *next;
 	struct urb *urb;
+	LIST_HEAD(tmp_list);
 
+	/* Create a copy of the wa->xfer_delayed_list while holding the lock */
 	spin_lock_irq(&wa->xfer_list_lock);
-	list_for_each_entry_safe(xfer, next, &wa->xfer_delayed_list,
-				 list_node) {
+	list_cut_position(&tmp_list, &wa->xfer_delayed_list,
+			wa->xfer_delayed_list.prev);
+	spin_unlock_irq(&wa->xfer_list_lock);
+
+	/*
+	 * enqueue from temp list without list lock held since wa_urb_enqueue_b
+	 * can take xfer->lock as well as lock mutexes.
+	 */
+	list_for_each_entry_safe(xfer, next, &tmp_list, list_node) {
 		list_del_init(&xfer->list_node);
-		spin_unlock_irq(&wa->xfer_list_lock);
 
 		urb = xfer->urb;
 		wa_urb_enqueue_b(xfer);
 		usb_put_urb(urb);	/* taken when queuing */
-
-		spin_lock_irq(&wa->xfer_list_lock);
 	}
-	spin_unlock_irq(&wa->xfer_list_lock);
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(wa_urb_enqueue_run);