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authorNeil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com>2015-07-21 09:55:40 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>2015-07-22 21:19:17 -0700
commit8cf12de41bb772fccd2807780ad23639e4fcce89 (patch)
tree01e76eb89e07173bea88b2a9fc63f068bd5334d4
parentstaging: unisys: Clean up kthread usage (diff)
staging: unisys: Guard against task leakage
Its possible to overwrite the old task pointer in visornic_resume. Add a check to guard against that and a warning if we find that its already running Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Romer <benjamin.romer@unisys.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
-rw-r--r--drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c b/drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c
index 923c580b9a5d..6c60e18b3be4 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/unisys/visornic/visornic_main.c
@@ -2118,8 +2118,13 @@ static int visornic_resume(struct visor_device *dev,
* we can start using the device again.
* TODO: State transitions
*/
- visor_thread_start(&devdata->threadinfo, process_incoming_rsps,
- devdata, "vnic_incoming");
+ if (!devdata->threadinfo.id)
+ visor_thread_start(&devdata->threadinfo,
+ process_incoming_rsps,
+ devdata, "vnic_incoming");
+ else
+ pr_warn("vnic_incoming already running!\n");
+
init_rcv_bufs(netdev, devdata);
spin_lock_irqsave(&devdata->priv_lock, flags);
devdata->enabled = 1;